Note 115 — Chapter I · TABOOED DAYS AT CRITICAL EPOCHS

Hodson, op. cit., p. 141. The khullakpa, also called gennabura, or “authorizer of genna,” is himself subject to a number of vexatious restrictions designed to prevent any impairment of the efficiency of his sacred office. On these taboos see below, pp. 233 sq. It is worthy of note that the khullakpa enjoys a good deal of indirect authority because of his power to close a village and declare a genna. An individual who violated any of the taboos imposed by him would be obliged to pay a fine, the proceeds being used to provide a substantial repast for the village elders (Hodson, in Journal of the Anthropological Institute, 1901, xxxi, 307).