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Although majority of the village is now Christian, all morungs are in good repair, well thatched, new straw tassels, well stocked with reed torches - camped in for 3 nights by the older members at moatzu - owing to small numbers no longer used as dormitories for boys - |
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Longzung Khel - 5 old men and their children. 3 tigers going down the pillars. |
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Longdi - 10 adults and their children, the small boys not yet christian and collect the reed torches. Tigers, hornbills - the latter classified as |
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1. developed - the mature Ao style. |
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2. rudimentary - Nokpur Sungyangli or Nokpur carvings. 'Nokpur village first carved the hornbill on a morung. It was not very expert so we call this way of carving hornbills Nokpur style.' |
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Tiyung Khel - in middle of village. Very smart and neat but no carvings. |
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Ongpang - 16 members, hornbills, 2 human figures. |
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Jamer - very good condition - hornbills. |
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After the first onrush of Christianity, a sullen obstinacy sets in - by reaction, christianity intensifies the old culture - the older members see their way of life dissolving around them - they therefore adhere all the more firmly to the ways of their fathers. |
