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Assam State Museum MUSEUM (GNB Rd; admission/camera/video 5/10/100; h10am-5pm Tue-Sun, until 4pm winter) This museum is worth a visit. It has a large sculpture collection, map of grand lake while the upper floors are devoted to informative tribal culture displays. You get to walk through reconstructed tribal homes.

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HEAD HUNTERS Throughout northeastern India and parts of western Myanmar the Naga tribes were long feared for their ferocity map of grand lake in war and for their sense of independence both from each other and from the rest of the world. Intervillage wars continued as recently as the 1980s, and a curious feature of many outwardly modern settlements is their treaty stones recording peace settlements between neighbouring communities. It was the Naga s custom of headhunting that sent shivers down the spines of neighbouring peoples. The taking of an enemy s head was considered a sign of strength, and a man who had not claimed a head was not considered a man. Fortunately for tourists, headhunting map of grand lake was officially outlawed in 1935, with the last recorded occurrence in 1963. Nonetheless, severed heads are still an archetypal artistic motif found notably on yanra (pendants) that originally denoted map of grand lake the number of human heads a warrior map of grand lake had taken. Some villages, such as Shingha Changyuo in Mon district, still retain map of grand lake their hidden collection of genuine skulls. map of grand lake Today Naga culture is changing fast, but it was not a government ban on headhunting that put an end to this tradition but rather the activities map of grand lake of Christian missionaries. Over 90% of the Naga now consider themselves Christian.

China has never formally recognised Indian sovereignty here and it took the surprise Chinese invasion of 1962 for Delhi to really start funding significant infrastructure. The Chinese voluntarily withdrew. These days border passes are heavily guarded by the Indian military and the atmosphere is extremely calm.