In the old days, community members offered the first fruits of various crops to high chiefs through the year to ritually honor them and, through them, to indigenous gods to ensure divine blessing for the well-being of the community. Among those yam tributes, important ceremonial feasts known as kamadipw en wahu ('feast of honor') and kamwadipw en kousapw ('feast of section') are annually held to pay respect to the Nahnmwarki (paramount chief) and section chief respectively at the height of the yam season around September to November, in which kehi (uncooked clusters of yam tubers) are used as tribute. The German colonial regime authorized the Nahnmwarki to have these feasts in 1912, when the Germans privatized land previously owned by the Nahnmwarki and curtailed the feasts for economic development.
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