South Sudan's Journey to Nationhood: The People: Portraits and Interviews: 07_LOPIT_1

Cecilia OnyoLopit{quote}If a chief dies, there will be additional space dug out next to his grave, so no soil will touch him. A black cow will be slaughtered and the skin will be put with the chief. He will stay for three months and then will be removed from the grave. The bones of the chief will be put in a pot and taken to the mountain and the people will dance. (If this is not done) there will not be a good yield that year for the crops.{quote}

Cecilia Onyo 

 

Lopit 

"If a chief dies, there will be additional space dug out next to his grave, so no soil will touch him. A black cow will be slaughtered and the skin will be put with the chief. He will stay for three months and then will be removed from the grave. The bones of the chief will be put in a pot and taken to the mountain and the people will dance. (If this is not done) there will not be a good yield that year for the crops."