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Chapter Five. Heathens and Baptists |
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harmful effects of missionaries, subverting Naga culture |
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People with serious faces came out of the chapel. There was the "pastor", a skinny young man in khaki shorts, and a mauve coat. |
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Some of his flock had also adopted shorts, but the rest of the community were content to emphasize their allegiance to the new doctrine by wearing plain dark-blue cloths, while the women wore white blouses, imported from the plains, with their Naga skirts. |
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The Aos' most cherished and valued possessions, the pride of generations, lay unheeded and scattered in the jungle -- ivory arm-lets, necklaces of boars' tusks, cowrie shells, head-dresses and baldrics, and artistically woven coloured cloths, all discarded because they belong to the old times. |
