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Informants: Medzou and Shankok |
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In the old times Wakching never had mithans and Chi had none either, only Mon and Tangnyu had mithan. To eat mithan meat is considered a little dangerous, one may become a leper, therefore up to this time some people, for instance Shankok's house, don't eat mithan. |
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Chinyang said yesterday that the mithan was originally the animal of Angs. (23) Still when Medzou was a boy they never saw a mithan. Only "big houses" sacrificed buffaloes, for "small houses" it was genna. When a buffalo was sacrificed a forked post was set up and the buffalo tied to it. SKETCH P.22 |
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(24) The The-pong people don't dare to carve hornbills for their morung, neither do they carve human figures or elephants. The Ang-ban does not put hornbills on the top of their roof, otherwise men would die. |
