The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

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

caption:

Chapter Four. Religious Beliefs and Practices

caption:

invocation before meals to Gawang

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books

ethnicgroup:

Konyak

location:

Wakching

production:

person:	Furer-Haimendorf/ C.
date:	1969
refnum:	with permission from Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York 100:4

text:

Gawang was also invoked in daily life. Whenever a Konyak began a meal, he took a few morsels of food and threw them aside with the words, "Gawang, eat you first."

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