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The most accessible villages are the Konyak settlements around Mon. Traditional houses abound, grand lake me and some villages have morungs and religious relics from pre-Christian times. Village elders may wear traditional grand lake me costume and Konyak of all ages carry the fearsome-looking dao a crude machete used for headhunting right up until the mid-20th century.

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