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Chapter Twenty-seven. Return to Nagaland |
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extraordinary clothes of Ang of Shangnyu |
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The owner of this colossal building was Lupok, the grandson of Auwang, the chief who had come out successfully in his contest with a usurper belonging to the chiefly house of Pomau. Lupok, a youngish man decorated with the full face-tattoo of a head-hunter, lacked the forceful personality of the Ang of Chui and clearly did not share his distaste of foreign clothes. His fantastic attire consisted of a pair of bright green shorts and a dark plastic jacket, a head-dress of monkey-fur and feathers, and heaps of valuable beads enclosing his neck. His attractive young wife wore traditional dress plus a blue blouse, and among the chief's numerous attendants there was an old man wearing a long dressing gown with stripes in two shades of brown. |
