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tattooing and insignia of head-takers |
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Konyaks. Head-taking and tattoo. |
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1. 9 villages do not tattoo the face - but the chest. Wakching, Wanching, Kanching, Tamlu, Namsang, Kongon, Chintang, Tanhai, Punkhung. (See Hutton's Diaries - 34, 35) |
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2. 10 villages in the hills also do not tattoo the face: Choha, Angpang, Longkheng, Showa, Aopao |
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3. Chinlang has a straight tattoo down the nose and not round the eyes. |
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Insignia of the head-taker |
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2. wood stuck through hair |
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3. head (1-5) worn round the neck, wooden or brass |
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4. model warrior with little wooden skulls - doll for dancing |
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5. warrior's baldric and hornbill feathers |
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- head-taker's status is earned on a morung - not on a private basis eg. all the boys of the morung age group are tattooed if one of their number either goes on a column or takes a head or goes on an expedition into 'hostile' land. |
