Naga Hills

The Naga Hills form part of the rugged mountain system between the Brahmaputra and Chindwin basins. Around Mon, Konyak villages stand among the forested ridges. Their hereditary chiefs, known as angh, could exercise influence over neighbouring settlements; great wooden drums stood beside the morung, a communal house at the heart of village life. Fields on the slopes were cultivated in a shifting cycle and then left for forest to return.