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Ang of Chi; tribute paid to Chi |
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Shiong pays about 8lb per house to the Ang of Chi. At the spring festival (bihu) everybody kills a pig and sends one piece of pork to Chi. Then to the villages from which he takes tribute after defeating them in war. He returns the tribute by visiting them occasionally and giving them a feast with a mithan - but not to his own offshoot. (15) Chintang pays to Chi 8lb of rice and 8-10lbs of dried taro, the first of the orange crop and the first of the Yak fruit crop, and one carrying band from every house. At the festival they give him husked rice, rice-beer and pork and all villages send him a share of fresh fish when they go fishing. The Ang of Chi has got one real wife and 40 concubines. His name is Mewang and he had two elder brothers who were Angs too. (16) Mewang has not done the ceremony of becoming Ang. If an Ang has done it he can't eat of tiger's kill, or meat of an animal with a torn eye. Mewang's nephew has done the ceremony. He will succeed because the office goes back to the senior house. |
