Morung- Youth Dormitory, Konyak Naga Tribe Habitat- Manav Sagarhalaya, Bhopal

One of the most important & interesting exhibition at tribal habitat in Manav Sangrahalya Bhopal, It is a kind of bachelor’s dormitory for the village youth and performed a variety of functions. It was a tradition among the Nagas that all the boys after they reached puberty, were required to enter the Morung. A boy who entered the dormitory at the age of six or seven remained there till he married and set up his own independent house.nnA Morung served as the educational center for the Nagas, where the traditional training and learning process was maintained and implemented. Members were required to follow a disciplined life and were taught the techniques of war, fighting, wrestling, games and sports, handicrafts, sex, and moral education, religious philosophy, etc. by the elders. These dormitories occasionally serve as a village hall or rest-house for visitors but are fundamentally youth clubs and youth dormitories, run by and for the benefit of the unmarried boys or girls.