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visit to Yekhum and Sanis |
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memorials to head-takers and tiger killers |
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Outside the village we saw a number of criss-cross bamboos. If a man has participated in a head-taking ceremony with a real head or a piece of head, these are erected to his memory. They are hung with bamboo balls representing heads, a tally of the ceremonies at which he has assisted. If he has attended ceremonies in which dummy heads (made of a root that looks like reddish hair) have been offered to the head tree, then he gets a root of this kind hung on his bamboos. If a man has killed a tiger, then he sometimes has a bamboo tiger placed there as a tally. |
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After the heat of the last few days, the evening was still and cool. There was a tangerine sunset and a little later a crashing storm. |
