The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf Naga diary on his return to Nagaland, 1970

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Hkakngui festival to drive out ghosts of dead is abandoned

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person:	Furer-Haimendorf
date:	12.8.1970-9.9.1970

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Kepalo, though a colony of Hasoichak is probably one of the old village-site which was easily defendable. The people still conform to Hasoichak custom, and when some 15 years Hasoichak abandoned the practice of driving out the ghosts of the dead once a year, the rite called Hkakngui described in "Naga Path" Kepalo followed suit.

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