The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

book - 'Naga Path', by Ursula Graham Bower, published John Murray 1950

caption: Chapter thirteen. Hgangi
caption: New Year feast of Hgangi
medium: books
date: 1.1941
production:
person: Graham Bower/ Ursula
text: Hgangi began a few days later. This great feast marks the turn of the year. It opens with the parting of the dead from the living; with its main day, Hgangi itself, the old year closes and the new begins; during its course, huge, stylized wooden effigies are set up at the gates to the village, and ceremonially speared by the men and boys - a relic of human sacrifices; and the various religious ceremonies, omen- takings and holidays run on for a full fortnight.
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