Our Chin cousins are famous as hunters. The Chin Hills were once covered with dense forests and abundant wild life. Therefore, the Chin people became expert hunters, first with the traditional bow and arrow and later with the local-made flint-locks. Go inside a Chin house in any Chin village and you will see a wall decorated with skulls of animals.

There are 100 skulls of mythuns, bears, wild boars, samburs, muntjacs, monkeys and hornbill adoring the wall. They are silent witnesses to the prowess of the hunter, a trophy board to be proud of. In front of the house, there is a large compound that has been used as a parade ground. On one side is a raised walkway constructed with the same huge board connecting the house with the street outside.

The main floor is raised above the ground and the ground floor is for storing firewood. The wide and spacious parlour is airy as the front part is open.Crossbows and old flint-locks as well as powder horns made of buffalo horns are hung on the pillars and the wall. Open porch and the kitchen are at the back.