NAGA

​The Naga people originated in Southeast Asia and are distributed all along the India/Myanmar border...

The Naga people originated in Southeast Asia and are distributed all along the India/Myanmar border.

They are nominally Christian and live in villages of communal wooden longhouses decorated with the skulls of mithun or wild buffalo.  Each village is ruled by a aung or chieftain and young men share a morung or dormitory until they get married.

Older Nagas have elaborate tattoos and facial piercing and Naga hunters wear pendants known as yanra, depicting several human heads, a reminder of the tribes'f head-hunting past.  Probably the most distinctive feature of Naga costume is the dao, a lethal-looking machete carried by both men and women.*
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 *This caption is from India -- a Lonely Planet travel guide.