MUTANG (Cave near)

(Khliehriat - IN)
25.187500,92.366700
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 27/04/2016

NOTE 1: Mutang (unidentified precision error) 25°11'00”N: 92°21'20”E (WGS84 modified from 25°11'00”N: 92°21'30”E Everest 1830, RAJA RAO, C S 1981: 75) from "mu" or "moo" (Syntang Khasi), maw (standard Khasi) or rock combined with ka 'tang (Khasi, noun), short for: ka ktang, a pipe (SINGH, N 1906: 218) tang (Khasi, verb) to make a finish of the plaiting of wicker-baskets or nets; to measure or heap up grain as much as a measuring basket can contain and holding one hand to support the grain (SINGH, N 1906: 218) thang" (verb, transitive) to burn (OLDHAM, T 1854 / 1984 appendix C: lxiv; SINGH, N 1906: 223; SINGH, N 1920: 56; BLAH, E 2007: 38); to cremate (SINGH, N 1906: 223); deflagrate (SINGH, N 1920: 112).

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 27/04/2016

A south-facing, letterbox-shaped cave entrance (20 m wide, 1 m high) at the base of a cliff gives access to a cave chamber, which descends some 25 m at a slightly inclined angle to an estimated 2 m wide and 8 m deep pitch or shaft in a relatively far corner. ETYMOLOGY: No autochthonous, indigenous or locally known name has been identified for a cave called after the relatively nearby populated place of Mutang (note 1). SITUATION: The letterbox-shaped cave entrance lies at the base of a cliff (unidentified position) and in an unidentified spatial relation to a populated place called Mutang in the vicinity of spots without any recorded GPS position (Georg Bäumler, Brian D. Kharpran Daly and Spindro Dkhar 1997 February 19 personal communication).

History

EXPLORATION HISTORY: 1997.02.19: Spindro Dkhar from Lumshnong guided Brian D. Kharpran Daly (interpreter) and Georg Bäumler (book) into this cave, which was fully visited and entered, sketched, explored and exited. Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 27/04/2016

Caves nearby

Distance (km)NameLength (m)Depth (m)
0.0DNGIEM, Mutang (Krem)
0.2MUTANG COAL MINE CAVE
0.2SHYNRANG THLOO, 1st (Krem)
0.3UMKWU (Krem)
0.3UMTYLLU
0.4UMKHLOT (Krem)
0.4YORKSHIRE POT
0.4AA CAVE (Jarratt 2000.02.22)
0.4UMSO, Mutang (Krem)