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front crossboard - a man dancing between two tigers. |
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2. Ang morung - 'Ang' post outside - a few carvings but black with smoke and covered with mats - a tiger, a loving couple - 2 shelves of skulls (21) - fed with rice, fish and rice beer every year at the Spring Festival - a morung feast is held - the morung members smear blood on their daos and dance (no blood on the carvings) - outside the morung a tree surrounded by menhirs - 'one for each head' - a separate dolmen in the open space before the morung 'for the Ang'. The Ang's house is just opposite - the morung (and indeed the whole village) is magnificently sited. The morung platform goes out over a precipice which is shaggy with jungle - from it you look down on the vast forest, a mass of crinkled olive green interspersed with the white trunks of trees, rising in humps and folds to even higher hills or sinking away to the huge Assam plain. |
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3. Nauchangpong morung. No carvings at all. Explanation: none of its members know how to carve - and the only others who would be entitled to carve are members of the Ang morung - the Ang refused to let any of them do the carving and therefore there are none |
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- the first morung has one carver of its own and therefore has some carvings. |
