Once, the way to get ahead among India’s Konyak warriors was by chopping off an enemy’s skull. Today, the last survivors of a past age mourn the changing times – and a new generation they see as soft.
“I am lucky to still be alive, to be around my extended family, and I feel that today’s generation is too privileged,” he said at Chi village, about 360km from the regional capital Dimapur.
“Human heads were trophies that earned you respect,” he said, sitting in front of a wall decorated with the skulls of animals sacrificed by his family. The head itself was taken and paraded about for the village to see, hailed as a sign of bravery to be celebrated. ‘Hard for women’ Like Nokkho, 90-year-old Bo Wang, king of nearby Hongphoi village, took up hunting wild boars and other animals after “headhunting became taboo”.Wang’s family, like other royals in nearby Konyak villages, has been the final local authority for generations.
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