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Kalasha would make effigies for there dead called Gandao and place these in their graveyards or Mandau'jau - place of many coffins.

Formerly the tribes of Nuristan were all so Animists before there forced conversion by the afghans in 1894 - 96 , They all so made effigies to the dead called Mute's and the best of these were placed in an effigy graveyard the Mute Mu . A small number of Kati Animists from the Bashgul valley were given refuge in the Kalsha valley's . Those of Mumuret valley settled in a village they called Brumbutul , they all also converted to Islam in the 1930s .

Triumphal posts or Kundrik would be made at the same time and honoring the same ancestor, these they placed inside the village or in the fields..(COPIED FROM NET)..