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Chapter One. The Material Background |
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men's hair style, Thenkoh ( short ), Thendu ( long ), hair pins |
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Thenkoh and Thendu Konyaks shared the use of many ornaments, but in hair style and head ornaments they demonstrated a marked individuality. Thenkoh men cut their hair short, but the men of the Thendu group let it grow and tied it up in a knot at the back of the head. Through this they stuck ornaments of several kinds, the most usual being a broad flat wooden "hairpin," Sometimes painted red and decorated with tufts of red goat's hair. Head-takers wore longer, batonlike "pins" carved with representations of human heads. |
