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Chapter Twenty-seven. Return to Nagaland |
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legends of foundation and hundreds of captured heads |
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The Tang people have the tradition that the founders of the village were people from the village of Chinlong, and that these settled on vacant land claimed by no-one else. Under an Ang of the chiefly house of Chinlong they developed into a powerful community, equal in size and military strength to Shangnyu. They used to take heads from Sheangha, Mon, Chui, Chen, and Shiong, and the collections of heads kept in the morung are evidence of their successes in raids. In one morung alone I counted a hundred and eighty head trophies. The men of Tang believe that in (239) their whole history they lost about a hundred heads and captured about three hundred. |
