Ceremonies & Traditions
Burial and mourning
Where graves were dug, how mourners marked a death, and the feast of the undoing of the string.
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Ceremonies & Traditions
Rituals, rites of passage and customs that mark Lango life.
Ceremonies & Traditions
Etogo: the festival of “buying adulthood”
A coming-of-age festival for boys, with chickens, withies and a stream.
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Ceremonies & Traditions
Marriage customs (as recorded in 1923)
Courtship, consent, the dowry arranged by elders, and the rule that marriage is never within a clan.
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