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Chapter five: land tenure and agriculture |
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days of ritual and feasting during the harvest period |
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footnotes indicated by boxes within square brackets |
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The long spell of work on the harvest is broken by other festivals, that of Nkam-ngi in November and Nsing-ngi in November. Like Pokpat-ngi, these provide days of ritual and days of feasting interspersed by days of normal work in the fields. The harvest ends, and the last of the rice is carried (114) in and stored, in the early part of December; and, as soon as the necessary preparations have been made, the old year is concluded by the separation of the dead from the living and the new year begins with the feast of Hga-ngi. |
