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Bags, head and chest ornaments, and dolls collected |
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This is being written in haste. I am posting you 3 parcels today - addressed to Curator, P-R. One contains 2 Konyak bags with good contrasting anthropomorphic designs. The one I got from the Ang of Mon is about the best I have ever seen. It was his own, made by one of his many wives. |
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Another box contains carved heads and chest ornaments. The wooden head of the blue eyed boy with a squint (you'll know which I mean when you see them!) was a lucky pick up. It is very old and was going to be thrown away - in fact I saw it round the neck of an idiot boy. I think you only have one or two of that type. I wish you'd seen the gentleman wearing the pink 'un (you'll know that too when you see it). He was one of the bucks who carried our loads. |
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The third box contains wooden and clay dolls. The Konyak dolls are ordinarily of clay, but as there was little chance of them arriving intact I asked the donor if he could make wooden ones. He said he could at once and did so. Very highly conventionalised... |
