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field-houses in the shape of buffalo horns at Yungya; fertility symbols |
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April 11th - To Yangam alias Shimung a small Konyak, or Phom and Konyak, village never before visited. It is divided from Yungya and Nyan by the Phangla stream -and is on the same spur as Mongnyu, but below it. |
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It was while leaving Yungya that I first saw one of the enormous field-houses [V. Infra, p. 11] built in these parts by men who have reaped a particularly good harvest. They are built in a form which probably represents buffalo horns, which, like mithan horns elsewhere, are everywhere here used as a fertility symbol. The houses which shelter the effigies of the dead in Urangkong are built on a similar pattern, so that one may suspect that there, as in other parts of the Naga Hills, the dead are intimately associated with the village crops. [SKETCH |
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I noticed today a man of Nyan carrying an embroidered bag on which patterns were worked, which clearly associated the familiar Naga lozenge with a derivation from the human figure. [SKETCH - lozenge pattern as worn on a bag. Nyan.] |
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Yangam was formerly a large and powerful village, they told me, which was eventually defeated by Yungya, treacherously of course, and now pays her tribute. |
