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Centre posts - tiger and elephant. |
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cross-boards - black and brown monkeys, hornbills. |
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The huge hall very gloomy - smell of stale urine - a post carved in shape of globular forms. 'A pile of pots. Everyone uses pots and feeds from them'. SKETCH |
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All the carvings were done when the morung was rebuilt 16-17 years ago - no gennas were observed for the carving work but a day's genna by the whole morung on the day when the building itself was dismantled and remade - for each carving, 5-6 men went to the forest, cut a tree and roughed it into shape. It was then dragged up and the final carving done in the morung itself. On the morung genna day, a buffalo preferably - otherwise cows and pigs are to be killed. They are not offered and no blood smeared on the carvings. More a feast to celebrate the rebuilding than a ritual appeasement. |
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Choice of subject is determined by morung rivalries - |
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'Morungs compete through their carvings'. A morung shows its superiority by the number and variety of its carvings. 'We bring all wild animals into the morung and head them with a tiger and elephant'. 'We carve a tiger and an elephant so that our enemies may know that all the young men are fierce as tigers and as strong as elephants'. |
