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During this festival, betrothed exchange the basketful of gifts with meals. Fiancé is invited to a grand dinner at the fiancées residence. Even siblings of the families of both the bride and groom exchanges dinner and packed food and meats. It is a time of joy even for the baby-sitters. On this day
they are fed generously with food and meat. Cultivators usually work in groups and
specially for Anni (Festival) they keep budged with either pigs or cows are procured and
the butchered animals are shared among the members. The served meat is used for group
feast. In the midst of the feast group leaders gets extra offer of meat by way of feeding
them by others. Each working group consists of 20 to 30 in number which includes several
women too. The new recruits are also made to add the group at this grand feast. The Betrothed are settled at this period. The fervours of feast is synchronised with
a chain of folk songs and ballads. Sumis have two different clan-heads, viz. Swu (Sumi) and
Tuku (Tukumi). By virtue of two separate clans the gennas and rituals differs between Sumi
and Tukumi. Among all other festivals and gennas, Sumis in general accepted the
festival of Tuluni as the most grand and important one. "AHUNA" AHUNA is a traditional post-harvest festival of the Sumis.
AHUNA signifies the celebration of the season's harvest in thanksgiving, while invoking
the spirit of goood fortune in the New Year. On this occasion, the entire community
prepares and feast on the first meal of rice drawn from the season's harvest cooked in a
bamboo segments. The receptacles fro cooking or serving on this occasion are freshly made,
curved or cut, from indegenously available resources prolific and abundant in the
countryside.
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