The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

book : 'Konyak Nagas' by Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, (1969)

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Chapter One. The Material Background

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important agricultural occasions initiated by special persons

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books

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Konyak

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person:	Furer-Haimendorf/ C.
date:	1969
refnum:	with permission from Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York 31:5

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It is a characteristic feature of Naga society that important operations must be inaugurated by persons of special ritual status; other villagers are not supposed to engage in such activities until a beginning has been made by those destined for the task by descent and status.

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