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Wanching morungs and Konyak clothing |
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Leading to the inner drum 2 entrances in the form of hornbill's nests - SKETCH |
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Chingche morung. Tiger under a swinging row of monkeys, a buffalo head, the entrance crowded with carvings. SKETCH |
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Pongchang morung. Has no carvings of human beings - leopards, good frieze of monkeys, 'they are a very low clan' - wear no clothes at all - not even the flap - (will be fined by the Pala morung if they wear it) - but women wear the slip - originally all Konyaks were naked - the flap was first started by Namsang - then spread to Wanching. Pangshong (sic) members even when they cut heads were not entitled to full warrior's dress - the lower clans originally the Ang's servant (slaves?) - who tilled his fields - or later comers? No other village in which this clan is subjected to the flap restriction eg. 2-3 families in Tamlu, 4 families in Kongon - all wear the flaps - but convention very much village eg. all of Nian men go naked - in many villages the men are quite naked in their houses. |
