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These days head taking has been stopped (since 1934). Last 13 years - if a boy wants warriors' status he now approaches the greatest warrior in the village, expresses his wish & is permitted to feast the elders with a pig - |
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a piglet Rs5 - the red belt without the red ends |
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a small pig Rs20 - painted strip - half red spear - cowrie apron |
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- 2 boars tusks + sipung (hair from the family stock). |
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a large pig Rs50 - everything including a hornbill's feather. |
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In many cases it is the right to wear ancestral dress - dress already in the family & inherited from grandfather or father ie. not new dress. |
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He must also give a cock & the oldest warrior takes it to the log drum & impales it on a stake before it - drum beaten - dance - all the young men desiring dress will then place a bamboo pole in the makutung - with a gourd or a broken pot on the top - each youth gives a cock to the presiding warriors of the village (one of each clan) - only one is offered at the drum - the others are eaten by the 2 old men - to get full dress - a dao must be given. Usually a whole group of boys does the ceremony together. (This is the practice in the villages like Chare - Sangsoma will follow it.) |
