The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database
  1. published - 'Report of the Survey Operations in the Naga Hills 1875-1876' by Lt. R.G. Woodthorpe
    Appendix D. H.M. Hinde's report lack of interpreters; Lonkao village's fear of being burnt by the British tours Lonkao Maihua Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1875-1876 After leaving Niassia, we found that none of th...
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  2. published - 'Report of the Survey Operations in the Naga Hills 1875-1876' by Lt. R.G. Woodthorpe
    Appendix D. H.M. Hinde's report Nagas ask for peace; depot established at Borbanchang tours Jaipur Borbanchang Senua Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1875-1876 4. Next day we marched into Borbanchang, passing through...
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  3. published - 'Report of the Survey Operations in the Naga Hills 1875-1876' by Lt. R.G. Woodthorpe
    Appendix D. H.M. Hinde's report destitution found in villages east of Tablung; famine caused by plague of rats; opium addiction tours Clark/ Mr. Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1875-1876 6. The villages along the ou...
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  4. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    introduction notes Godwin-Austen Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 (46) Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting The So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Fr...
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  5. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    meaning of the term 'Naga'; village names notes Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 The Naga tribes inhabit the hills south-east of Assam, dividing that pro...
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  6. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    Capt. Butler, first British agent in the Naga Hills notes Butler Samaguting Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 It will be unnecessary to refer at any lengt...
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  7. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    geography notes Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 Although the home of so many diverse tribes, the character of the country is much the same throughout, a...
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  8. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    gold; population notes Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 In former times these rivers were worked for gold by the Assamese, but the precious metal was not...
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  9. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    kilted and non-kilted notes Angami Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 Speaking generally, the Nagas may be divided into two great sections, viz.: (1) the k...
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  10. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    physical description of Angamis; hair-style notes Angami Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 The average height of the Angamis is 5 feet 9 inches (some atta...
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  11. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    Angami kilts; cowries; cloths; coronet of bears' hair; hornbill feathers notes Angami Mao Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 The kilt, the principal distin...
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  12. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    Angami ear ornaments; necklaces and neck ornaments notes Angami Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 The chief ornament for the ear is a very handsome one. I...
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  13. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    Angami armlets of elephant tusk notes Angami Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 Armlets made of single slices of elephants' tusks, 2 inches wide, and small...
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  14. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    Angami cane leggings notes Angami Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 Leggings are made of red and yellow cane work, and follow somewhat the shape of the le...
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  15. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    Angami women: physique and dress notes Angami Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 The women, like the men, are on the average taller than the women of most ...
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  16. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    Angami women's dress; women's work notes Angami Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 The women's dress consists of a small blue or black petticoat, a strip o...
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  17. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    food: cows, pigs. goats, fowls; roast dog notes Angami Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 The Nagas generally breed cows, pigs, goats, and fowls, for purpo...
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  18. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    Angami villages; fortifications: pit-falls, panjis, gates notes Angami Kohima (Kohimah) Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 The Angami villages are almost a...
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  19. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    roads notes Angami Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 The roads in the higher hills are constructed with considerable skill, the more precipitous slopes be...
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  20. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    graves; wooden effigies; conch-shell neck ornaments notes Angami Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 Inside the villages, and also lining the approaches to ...
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  21. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    monoliths notes Angami Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 Very noticeable objects among these hills are the long rows of huge monoliths, which are either m...
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  22. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    Eastern Angamis: physique and dress notes Angami <Eastern Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 These remarks on the Western Angamis apply to their brethren o...
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  23. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    houses and house decoration; daos notes Angami <Eastern Razama (Razami) Thetcholumi Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 The houses of these people are rathe...
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  24. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    language; enemy heads notes Angami <Eastern Sehmah Ungomah Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 At one village called Ungomah we came across some men who, th...
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  25. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    general observations on the Angamis; song and dance notes Angami Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 The Angamis struck us as a very cheerful, frank, hospit...
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  26. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    Angami blood feuds notes Angami Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 Bloodthirsty, treacherous, and revengeful all Nagas, even the best are, and the Angami, ...
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  27. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    village government; headmen notes Butler Angami Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 The Angamis, as indeed the Nagas in general, have no settled form of gov...
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  28. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    thoughts on an after-life notes Holcombe/ Lt. Butler Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 The Nagas in general have very vague ideas of religion or of a futu...
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  29. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    belief in spirits notes Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 Whatever may be their belief in a god or a future state, it is certain that they believe in an i...
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  30. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    attempts to mislead British notes Butler Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 The Nagas would frequently try to mislead us as to our road, by planting small ...
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  31. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    oracles notes Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 I remember once, just after Captain Butler's death, when we were again advancing into the hills, coming ac...
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  32. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    protecting a village by sacrificing a puppy; omens; ceremony notes Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 On another occasion we had gone about three miles fro...
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  33. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    taboos notes Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 Among the Angamis a description of "Tabu" is very much in vogue. It is declared on every occasion; on the b...
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  34. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    conveying hostile messages notes Butler Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 Captain Butler mentions the following instances of their expressive manner of em...
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  35. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    notes Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 DISCUSSION Next Previous
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  36. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    comments by Col. H. Godwin-Austen; burial customs notes Godwin-Austen/ Col. H. Buckland/ Miss Asalu Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 Colonel H. Godwin-Au...
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  37. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    comments by Mr Keane; physique and language notes Keane/ Mr Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 Mr Keane regarded Col. Woodthorpe's able and richly illustra...
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  38. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    reply - hair and feathers notes Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 Colonel Woodthorpe, replying to Mr Keane, said that the hair of the Angamis is generally...
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  39. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    notes Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 (63) PART II Next Previous
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  40. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    un-kilted Nagas notes Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 In my last paper I dealt only with the Angamis, or kilted Nagas, who, as I then stated, are distin...
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  41. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    unflattering description of Rengmahs, Sehmahs and Lhotas; goitres; hair-style notes Rengmah Sehmah Lhota Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 The tribes comm...
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  42. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    dirt; pipes notes Brown/ Dr Rengmah Sehmah Lhota Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 Notwithstanding all my previous experience of hill-men, I was quite unp...
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  43. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    Rengmah 'tails'; dress notes Rengmah Sehmah Lhota Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 The Rengmahs are particularly noticeable for the peculiar tail which t...
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  44. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    shields; belief that moisture could repel bullets; weapons: bows and arrows notes Rengmah Sehmah Lhota Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 Among the other t...
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  45. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    bachelor's houses (morung) notes Rengmah Sehmah Lhota Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 A peculiarity among all these non-kilted tribes, which again disti...
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  46. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    house styles; fortifications; head-tree notes Rengmah Sehmah Lhota Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 A practice common to all, though, as we have seen, no...
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  47. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    cultivation - "jooming" notes Rengmah Sehmah Lhota Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 A few words concerning the manner of cultivating will suffice for all...
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  48. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    language; physique; dress; weapons notes Hatigoria Dupdoria Assiringia Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 (67) Passing along the hills in a north-easterly ...
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  49. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    women's dress; ear decorations; tattoos; smoking notes Hatigoria Dupdoria Assiringia Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 The women's dress consists of a sma...
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  50. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    village fortifications; gates; lookouts; morung; carvings; log-drum; posts notes Hatigoria Dupdoria Assiringia Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 The villa...
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  51. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    treatment of the dead; violent deaths notes Hatigoria Dupdoria Assiringia Mongsenyimti (Boralangi) Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 The bodies of the dea...
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  52. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    roads notes Hatigoria Dupdoria Assiringia Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 The Hatigorias, as road engineers, far surpass their neighbours. Their roads a...
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  53. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    tattoos; physique notes Naked Nagas Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 We pass on now to the tribes lying to the north-east of these we have just been cons...
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  54. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    villages; morungs; carvings; skulls decorated with horns notes Naked Nagas Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 A general description of the villages, &amp;c...
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  55. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    houses notes Naked Nagas Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 The houses in these villages are similar to those already described being raised from the groun...
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  56. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    widows; 'groom service' notes Naked Nagas Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 When and old woman is left a widow and without a home, her son (or nearest rel...
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  57. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    skulls; Y posts notes Naked Nagas Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 In some villages the skull trophies are not placed in the morang, but are placed in fr...
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  58. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    treatment of corpses notes Naked Nagas Wanching (Tablung) Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 The dead are sometimes as at Tablung, &amp;c., wrapped tightly...
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  59. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    tattoos notes Naked Nagas Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 The men of this tribe tattoo on the chest after taking their first head. The pattern consists ...
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  60. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    Naga tribe near Yangmun river notes Yangnyu R. (Yangmun R.) Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 In the valley of the Yangmun river is an interesting tribe o...
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  61. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    lack of tattooing; women's hair-style; women's dress; house decoration notes Yangnyu R. (Yangmun R.) Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 There is very littl...
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  62. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    granaries; 'rainbow' memorials notes Hutton Yangnyu R. (Yangmun R.) Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 They build a large number of granaries in their fiel...
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  63. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    stone viaduct; weapons: daos, bows notes Yangnyu R. (Yangmun R.) Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 In one village here we saw a very fine stone viaduct ac...
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  64. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    murder of Lt. Holcombe, 1875 notes Holcombe/ Lt. Badgley/ Capt. Mutania Sermamen Borduaria Namsangia Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 We now come to the ...
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  65. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    physique; tattooing notes Mutania Sermamen Borduaria Namsangia Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 The men are of average height and nearly all well made an...
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  66. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    hair-style notes Mutania Sermamen Borduaria Namsangia Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 All the men of these tribes dress their hair in a similar fashion,...
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  67. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    helmets notes Mutania Sermamen Borduaria Namsangia Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 As we proceed eastwards from the Angamis we find a taste for helmets ...
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  68. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    cane armlets; broad brass belts; cowrie bracelets notes Mutania Sermamen Borduaria Namsangia Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 From the shoulders to the e...
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  69. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    ornaments; men naked until married notes Mutania Sermamen Borduaria Namsangia Voka Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 These Nagas are very skilful in devis...
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  70. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    women's physique; tattoos notes Mutania Sermamen Borduaria Namsangia Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 The women of these Eastern tribes are short in stat...
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  71. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    dangers of tattooing notes Mutania Sermamen Borduaria Namsangia Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 The operation of tattooing is sometimes attended with fa...
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  72. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    women's dress notes Mutania Sermamen Borduaria Namsangia Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 The dress of the women consists principally of a very small pet...
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  73. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    weapons: daos, spears notes Mutania Sermamen Borduaria Namsangia Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 The arms are, as usual, the dao, spear and crossbow. Th...
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  74. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    gongs and bells; walking sticks notes Mutania Sermamen Borduaria Namsangia Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 (79) Gongs, which probably come indirectly fr...
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  75. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    fortifications notes Mutania Sermamen Borduaria Namsangia Borbanchang (Bor Bansang) Senua Niao Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 The villages are not alwa...
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  76. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    houses notes Mutania Sermamen Borduaria Namsangia Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 The houses are generally scattered up and down without any attempt at ...
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  77. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    Vangam's or headman's house; log-drum; morungs; skulls notes Mutania Sermamen Borduaria Namsangia Mutan (Bor Mutan) Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 The ...
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  78. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    methods of making peace notes Mutania Sermamen Borduaria Namsangia Niao Senua Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 Between two villages we saw by the roadsid...
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  79. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    treatment of the dead; cairns notes Mutania Sermamen Borduaria Namsangia Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 The dead are wrapped in mats and placed on plat...
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  80. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    life of a surveyor in the Naga Hills notes Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 In my paper on the Angamis I have said all that we know, or that I, at any ra...
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  81. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    notes Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 Discussion Next Previous
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  82. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    Col. H. Godwin-Austen's comments on the variety of languages; the prevalence of goitres; symbolic patterns on cloths and shields; treatment of the dead notes Godwin-Austen/ Col. H. Woodthorpe/ R.G. 18...
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  83. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    Mr Hyde Clarke's comments on the diversity of languages notes Hyde Clarke/ Mr Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 Mr Hyde Clarke, in responding to Col. Godw...
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  84. published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881
    terraced fields; salt wells notes Angami Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1881 given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881 Colonel Woodthorpe, replying to the President and Colonel Keating, said that th...
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  85. part of original tour diary of Lt. R.G. Woodthorpe 1876
    Summary of postal charges to individuals and to the service tours Ogle Tulloch/ Col Hinde Wokha Lakhuti Pangti 22.12.1875-8.2.1876 Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1875-1876 Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford Wokha D...
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  86. part of original tour diary of Lt. R.G. Woodthorpe 1876
    Anxiously awaiting outcome of a severe wound inflicted on Capt Butler in an attack tours Elliott Butler/ Capt Butler/ Walter Tulloch/ Col Lungkam (Nankam) Are Pangti 1.1.1876 Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1875-187...
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  87. part of original tour diary of Lt. R.G. Woodthorpe 1876
    Camp halted still awaiting Butler's fate tours Butler/ Capt Butler/ Walter Pangti 2.1.1876 Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1875-1876 Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford (2) Sunday 2nd. (Min. ther. 51o max. 79o) Butle...
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  88. part of original tour diary of Lt. R.G. Woodthorpe 1876
    Sketching locality whilst waiting with Butler tours Butler/ Capt Butler/ Walter Pangti 3.1.1876 Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1875-1876 Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford Monday 3rd. (Max. ther 75o min. 41o) Butle...
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  89. part of original tour diary of Lt. R.G. Woodthorpe 1876
    Punitive fires lighted in Pangti tours Elliott Butler/ Capt Pangti Okotso 4.1.1876 Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1875-1876 Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford Tuesday 4th. (Max. ther. 80o min. 38o) Went up hill wit...
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  90. part of original tour diary of Lt. R.G. Woodthorpe 1876
    Attending to Butler; sketching locality tours Butler/ Capt Pangti 5.1.1876 Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1875-1876 Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford Wednesday 5th. Washed Butler. A large quantity of matter came o...
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  91. part of original tour diary of Lt. R.G. Woodthorpe 1876
    Punitive measures taken against Pangti tours Tulloch/ Col Elliott Butler/ Capt Pangti 6.1.1876 Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1875-1876 Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford Thursday 6th. Went up early with Col. Tullo...
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  92. part of original tour diary of Lt. R.G. Woodthorpe 1876
    Death of Captain Butler tours Butler/ Capt Elliott Butler/ Walter Memaram Pusiniu Ogle Pangti Lakhuti Yimpang Buragaon (Buragaon) 7.1.1876 Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1875-1876 Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford...
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  93. part of original tour diary of Lt. R.G. Woodthorpe 1876
    Break-up of camp and march to Golaghat tours Tulloch/ Col Elliott Stephenson Butler/ Walter Yimpang Buragaon (Buragaon) Giladhari Oating Golaghat 8.1.1876 Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1875-1876 Pitt Rivers Museum...
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  94. part of original tour diary of Lt. R.G. Woodthorpe 1876
    Funeral of Captain Butler tours Butler/ Capt Butler/ Walter Huttman Tulloch/ Col Matthews Stevenson Wallace Elliott Mackay Allen Peet Gray Clarke La Touche Golaghat 9.1.1876 Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1875-1876...
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  95. part of original tour diary of Lt. R.G. Woodthorpe 1876
    Visit to bazaar and to Gatonga tours La Touche Golaghat Gatonga 10.1.1876 Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1875-1876 Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford Monday 10th. Went to bazaar in morning. Wrote letters and went o...
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  96. part of original tour diary of Lt. R.G. Woodthorpe 1876
    Rifle practice tours Gatonga 11.1.1876 Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1875-1876 Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford (4) Sunday 11th. Remained at Gatonga. Wrote letters. Rifle practice in evening. Next Previous
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  97. part of original tour diary of Lt. R.G. Woodthorpe 1876
    Return to Golaghat tours Tulloch/ Col Ogle Thuillier/ Col Butler/ Capt Stevenson Matthews Golaghat 12.1.1876 Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1875-1876 Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford Wednesday 12th. Returned to G...
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  98. part of original tour diary of Lt. R.G. Woodthorpe 1876
    Preparations to leave Golaghat tours Butler/ Walter Needham Golaghat 13.1.1876-14.1.1876 Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1875-1876 Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford Thursday 13th. Went out early to Walter Butler's....
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  99. part of original tour diary of Lt. R.G. Woodthorpe 1876
    Commencement of tour tours Needham Ogle Tulloch/ Col Baru jam Bhandari Golaghat Bhagti R. (Bagti R.) Diyung R. (Doiang R.) 15.1.1876-17.1.1876 Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1875-1876 Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Ox...
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  100. part of original tour diary of Lt. R.G. Woodthorpe 1876
    Naga method of diving; concerning omens tours Soleji Diyung R. (Doiang R.) Khergaon Rephyim (Rechim) Wokha Yekhum (Yekam) 18.1.1876 Woodthorpe/ R.G. 1875-1876 Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford Tuesda...
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