The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

miscellaneous papers, notebooks and letters on Nagas by Ursula Graham Bower, 1937-1947

caption:

Halei-na genna

caption:

eighth day. Heliem-zao-na

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notes

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Zemi

production:

person:	Graham Bower/ Ursula
date:	1937-1946

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private collection

text:

8th day. Heliem-zao-na.

text:

No field work is done, but the village is not closed. All is made ready for the following day. A pig is bought [sic]. Men may not eat fish, or they will be wounded in war, and they must remain chaste that night. The breakers of the taboo will be killed by a tiger or come by some similar bad end.

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