Note 112 — Chapter I · TABOOED DAYS AT CRITICAL EPOCHS

Hodson, op. cit., pp. 109, 144, 173, 175 sq. The Naga west of the Doyang River are said to have a genna also at the annual ceremony of making new fire for the village. The fire, produced by friction, is first used in burning down the jungle before the sowing of the crops (W. Crooke, Natives of Northern India, London, 1907, p. 45; E. T. Dalton, Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal, Calcutta, 1872, p. 43). The Angami Naga mark by a three days’ genna the first full moon of the lunar year (D. Prain, in Revue coloniale internationale, 1887, v, 489).