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Chantongia: morungs and xylophone; divination by fire-making; tattoos; weaving; hairstyles and ornamentation |
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Mills walked & I rode from Susu to Chantongia (7 miles); good bridle-path, being the main route from Mokokchung (26 miles). Jungle & jhum scenery. We arrived at Chantongia bungalow, a good one, at about 11.30 a.m.; & I went and sketched a xylophone at a morung close by. There are two morungs close together, due to a split in a fratry. The larger one has a xylophone, the other none. There are some interesting carvings on the pillars. The morungs are of the Konyak (open) type. After lunch I went round the village, upon which the bungalow looks down. it is a scattered village, having a separate 'Christian' section. It is almost purely Ao with slight Phom & Konyak admixture. The morung gable-roof hardly slopes backwards & has a small overhanging end-gable. There is an entrance platform with notched-log ladder. The xylophone, |
