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Chapter Eleven. Sacred Chiefs |
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role and nature of wood carvings and carvers |
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Most wood-carvings of the Konyaks serve to decorate their men's houses. In Longkhai the morung were full of carvings, most of them works of the Ang, his deaf-and-dumb half-brother or a deceased third brother. This third brother was the greatest genius of the three and his work was the most mature. On one of the main posts of the Ang morung a particular carving of a man and a woman surpassed in force and expression and real artistic feeling (103) all the other carvings in Longkhai. |
