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Chapter Three. Phases of Life |
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boys absorption into adult life; tattooed at thirteen or fourteen |
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Gradually and imperceptibly, a boy was thus absorbed into the life of the adults. He accompanied the older men when they went hunting or fishing, and learned, thereby all that a Konyak had to know. Every few years a new group of boys would enter the morung, and the senior boys helped in their education and were entitled to their services. At the age of thirteen or fourteen a boy would have his chest tattooed, but no ceremony was connected with this operation, which was invariably performed by women of Ang class. |
