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Chapter One. The Material Background |
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The corpse platforms stood usually just outside the village stockade. In administered territory fortifications were no longer necessary, and Wakching had given up maintaining a defensive fence. Several nearby settlements had nominal stockades, but Konyak villagers in unadministered territory continued to be on guard, and they surrounded their villages with wooden palisades, the stakes secured with bamboo and cane lashings and spiked with sharpened bamboo spikes. |
