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Chin State
Most of the traditional villages in the Chin area are found along the side of remote hills, near the fields. Long hikes straight down and then straight up are required to reach most of these villages.
Metal tin cans and wood yokes on posts are built to protect the granaries from rodents. Kyardo Village.
In front of many of the houses, you can see these forked totems. Called "Khun Thoan" (post to which the buffalo is tied) these are erected whenever a hunter has killed a wild buffalo (mithan) in the forest. After six kills, the hunter may build a small stone table near the posts. The skulls of the mithan are hung in front of the house in the Nam Thaing Village.Traditional Chin graveyard with small stone monuments can be seen in the villages. Most Chin have converted to Buddhism or Christianity and have abandoned the practice of making stone monuments.
Exposed beneath one of the stone monuments are the pottery jars used to hold the ashes or bones of the deceased, along with their valuables at Bonah Village.
Many of the older women are tattooed in very distinct patterns depending on village or clan affiliation. Only in the more remote villages are the younger woman doing face tattoos.There is a legend that a long time before, when other kings come to conquer the Chin land, they capture the women and girls because of their beauty. To avoid this happening, they made a special paint made out of herb to disguise their beauty. From that time on, the Chin women start to wear tatoos on their faces.
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