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Appendix B. (1). The Western Rengma Nagas |
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stone seats; houses; Feasts of Merit; house horns |
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8. Circular, or, more usually, semicircular, stone seats are made by the sides of paths. Upright stones help to strengthen the wall. Sometimes a man makes one during life as a memorial to himself, and sometimes a widow or a son makes one as a memorial to a dead man. It is particularly common for a son to make one as a memorial to his father if he has been having bad crops, and these seats are believed to recapture the lost fertility of the parents. Any one may sit on them. |
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9. Houses are of wood, bamboo and thatch. Planks for the front wall and porch may only be used by a man who has given the first of four feasts of merit. |
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10. (a) The shape of the front porch of the house varies according to the distance the owner has progresses in the series of feasts of merit. In Tesophenyu a man who has completed the series puts up "house horns" of the Angami pattern, but smaller. |
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(b) A man who has given the feasts of merit wears a dark blue cloth with white bands and red lines at the edge. His daughter may wear a body cloth ornamented with circles of cowries. |
