The principal Angami festival in the Sekrenyi. It is celebrated in February
by the Western Angamis and in December by the Southern Angamis. The festival
is to ensure the health and well being of the community during the coming
year. It is an occasion of great merry making, enormous quantities of
rice-beer, beef and pork are consumed. An interesting feature of
the festival is that the men have to prepare a separate hearth and abstain
from any sexual relation for the first two days.
