The Nagas

Chapter One. The Naga Hills reasons for interest in Nagas and their megaliths books Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 (1) My interest in the Nagas and their country began long before I had an opportunity...
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Chapter One. The Naga Hills fragmentary knowledge of this unknown land books Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The Naga Hills, as the part of Nagaland then under British administration used to be called,...
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Chapter One. The Naga Hills persistence of ancient cultural patterns books Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The lure of such terra incognita and the prospect of encountering tribal populations relativel...
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Chapter One. The Naga Hills never a totally isolated region books Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 (2) Yet even before the establishment of British rule the seclusion of the Naga Hills had not been as c...
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Chapter One. The Naga Hills previous published materials on the Nagas books Hutton/ J.H. Hodson/ T.C. Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 In preparing myself for field research among the Nagas I could lean...
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Chapter One. The Naga Hills help from J.P.Mills books Mills/ J.P. Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Equally productive and scholarly was J.P. Mills, who continued the series of monographs with three exce...
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Chapter One. The Naga Hills little known about northern and eastern Nagas books Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Hutton's and Mills' studies had covered most of the southern and western part of the dist...
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Chapter One. The Naga Hills a restricted area in 1936 and 1975 books Mills/ J.P. Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 In 1936 the Naga Hills were as much a restricted area as Nagaland is in 1975, and when a...
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Chapter One. The Naga Hills voyage by steamer to India and travel across India books Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 My voyage to India on board the Victoria, a luxurious Lloyd Triestino liner, provide...
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Chapter One. The Naga Hills landscape as travels across India by train books Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 In 1936 there was no alternative to travelling by train, and I am still glad that on that fi...
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Chapter One. The Naga Hills travel by train up into Assam books Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 After a night and day in a train rolling northwards through the plains of undivided Bengal, I crossed the...
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Chapter One. The Naga Hills met by policeman at Manipur Road station books Mills/ J.P. Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Would Mills, knowing of my coming, have arranged for some sort of conveyance to br...
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Chapter One. The Naga Hills road up to the Naga frontier through Assam books Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 It was a narrow but very good road which led for the next few miles through a friendly meado...
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Chapter One. The Naga Hills road to Kohima from Manipur Road books Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The road, following a swiftly flowing river, swollen during the rains, wound through a wooded valley, ...
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Chapter One. The Naga Hills first encounter with Angami Nagas books Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 (5) A group of road-workers appeared in front of us. They were Angami Nagas -- the first Nagas I was ...
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Chapter One. The Naga Hills arrival at Kohima, description of books Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The tropical forest receded as we gained height, until at last we came to the region where the Angami...
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Chapter One. The Naga Hills meet Mills at bungalow in Kohima books Mills/ J.P. Kohima Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The lorry stopped before the gate of a sloping garden where deep purple bougainvill...
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Chapter One. The Naga Hills responsibilities of a District Commissioner books Mills/ J.P. Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Small wonder that a man responsible for the entire administration of a district...
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Chapter One. The Naga Hills preparations for a tour through Angami country with Mills books Mills/ J.P. Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 "The day after tomorrow I am going on tour through some Eastern A...
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Chapter One. The Naga Hills engaging a servant not easy books Tsampio Mills/ J.P. Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Next I had to engage a servant and this seemed to be no easy matter. The Nagas, proud a...
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Chapter One. The Naga Hills setting out on tour with Mills and interpreter Thevoni books Thevoni Mills/ J.P. Angami Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The weather was fine as we started from Kohima -- a p...
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Chapter One. The Naga Hills description of mountain scenery and paths books Angami Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The well-kept bridle-path led along an open slope. Before our eyes extended an immense...
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Chapter One. The Naga Hills greeting from Thevoni's wife with rice beer books Thevoni Angami Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 After several hours' march, we climbed down into the valley and crossed a sm...
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Chapter One. The Naga Hills arrival at Chakhabama rest house books Angami Chakhabama Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Lest our ponies should have been brought entirely in vain, we rode up the mountain t...
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Chapter One. The Naga Hills description of a death and funeral at Chakhabama books Angami Chakhabama Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Chakhabama consisted only of a few small houses near the bungalow. B...
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Chapter One. The Naga Hills description of crowd of inhabitants of Thenizumi books Thevoni Mills Angami Thenizumi Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The next day, arriving at one of those small rest-house...
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Chapter One. The Naga Hills arrival at Cheswezumi, an Angami village books Angami Cheswezumi Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 We arrived at the bungalow, lying slightly below the village of Cheswezumi, ...
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Chapter One. The Naga Hills detailed description of Cheswezumi village books Angami Cheswezumi Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The slippery path led through a narrow rocky passage, (9) overgrown with b...
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Chapter One. The Naga Hills description of the inside a Naga house books Angami Cheswezumi Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Eventually an old man in the red cloth of a gaonbura appeared and invited me w...
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Chapter One. The Naga Hills Mills occupied counting houses for tax assessment books Mills/ J.P. Angami Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 During the next few days Mills was mainly occupied in counting the...
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Chapter One. The Naga Hills difficulties of house assessing, description of village books Angami Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Whenever we arrived in a village the inhabitants held a holiday. It is d...
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Chapter One. The Naga Hills lookout posts and carvings and views books Angami Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Tall posts propped up against the edge of the steps carry the platforms that serve the Naga...
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Chapter One. The Naga Hills Angami irrigated rice cultivation described books Angami Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 But there still remained many months before the reaping. Now, in June, the rice had ...
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Chapter One. The Naga Hills girls and boys planting out rice seedlings near Sathazumi books Angami Sathazumi Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 One day we climbed up to a village and as we made our way th...
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Chapter One. The Naga Hills quarrel at Sathazumi books Thevoni Mills/ J.P. Angami Sathazumi Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 We spent that evening at the Sathazumi inspection bungalow nearly 6,000 feet ...
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Chapter One. The Naga Hills reasons for frequent disputes among Angamis books Angami Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Why is it that the Angamis of those remote villages, whose economy had then not been...
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Chapter One. The Naga Hills absence of political or judicial authorities among Angamis; office of founder's descendant books Angami Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 (13) The Angamis were never ruled by ...
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Chapter One. The Naga Hills privileges and powers of founder's kin or tevo books thevo Angami Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Today it is difficult to see how in the old days an Angami village was run....
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Chapter One. The Naga Hills advantages of being a tevo books Angami Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 You would think that the man envisaged as the successor of the Tevo must cut but a poor figure on the...
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Chapter One. The Naga Hills story of treachery by a tevo books Angami Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 A woman from a neighbouring village came to see the Tevo's wife, and during a friendly chat obliged...
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Chapter One. The Naga Hills tevo does not have to pay house tax books Angami Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 With such beliefs it is not easy to hold the office of Tevo. Yet it had one material advanta...
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Chapter One. The Naga Hills peculiarities of marriage customs of Eastern Angamis books Angami Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Passing through an Eastern Angami village one soon notices that the younges...
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Chapter One. The Naga Hills virginity disliked and sexual prowess honoured books Angami Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 It would seem that hardly one per cent of these first marriages lead to permanent...
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Chapter Two. Feasts Of Merit attempted reconstruction of mind of Naga wishing to put up house horns on his house books Netsoho Angami Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Imperceptibly the first grey of daw...
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Chapter Two. Feasts Of Merit early morning in an Angami village books Angami Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Thick mists still hid the valley and the rice-fields, but already (17) the morning sun had k...
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Chapter Two. Feasts Of Merit preparing for Feast of Merit; ceremonial dress books Angami Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The day was a feast day, and no one went to the fields. The men and women sat in...
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Chapter Two. Feasts Of Merit sacrifice of bulls near Netsoho's house books Netsoho Angami Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Late in the morning, when all the preparations were complete, small groups stre...
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Chapter Two. Feasts Of Merit blessing by tevo books Netsoho Angami Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The grey-haired Tevo was politely invited into Netsoho's house.. There, in solemn silence, Netsoho sat...
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Chapter Two. Feasts Of Merit further sacrifices and feasting books Angami Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The feast was now formally opened, and all the guests revelled in food and drink. Neither was l...
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Chapter Two. Feasts Of Merit fetching of two stones on sledges; stone dragging described books Netsoho Angami Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 But it was not yet time for the men to lose themselves in t...
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Chapter Two. Feasts Of Merit stone dragging cloth books Netsoho Angami Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 It was an excited, riotous crowd that wound its way through the sunlit forest. Rhythmical shouts e...
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Chapter Two. Feasts Of Merit stones slid into holes with offerings books Netsoho Angami Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Near the path to the fields, and close to the stone monuments of other men, two h...
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Chapter Two. Feasts Of Merit blessing of stones books Angami Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 "May my meat increase, may my crops increase, may my food last long, may my food not be finished quickly," t...
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Chapter Two. Feasts Of Merit symbolism of stones books Netsoho Angami Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 This duality is one of the essential features of the whole ceremony. No bachelor may perform the st...
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Chapter Two. Feasts Of Merit singing and dancing, the stone draggers return to village books Netsoho Angami Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The ceremony was over. Netsoho uttered a long drawn out shout...
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Chapter Two. Feasts Of Merit cerebrations all night books Angami Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 There were few in the village who slept that night. Rice-beer flowed freely, and until early morning the...
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Chapter Two. Feasts Of Merit house-horns to adorn Netsoho's house books Netsoho Angami Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 It was not many days before a pair of newly carved house-horns adorned Netsoho's h...
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Chapter Two. Feasts Of Merit megalithic monuments numerous in Angami villages books Angami Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Hundreds and thousands of megalithic monuments such as those Netsoho erected a...
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Chapter Two. Feasts Of Merit feasts of merit and setting up stones as prestigous books Angami Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Most menhirs stand in pairs or in long double rows. Wealthy men have set th...
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Chapter Two. Feasts Of Merit Angami beliefs of connection between stones and souls of the dead books Angami Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 There is a subtle connection between a man and a stone erecte...
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Chapter Two. Feasts Of Merit Angami graves and tallies for the deeds of the dead books Angami Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 For the some reason the dead are buried within the village or by the side o...
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Chapter Two. Feasts Of Merit return to Kohima, June 1936, learning Assamese books Mills Angami Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 We returned to Kohima after a fortnight's tour. Mills had counted the hous...
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Chapter Two. Feasts Of Merit preparing for fieldwork - learning Assamese books Nlamo Mills Angami Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Once again Mills came to the rescue. He found Nlamo, a young Lhota Naga...
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Chapter Two. Feasts Of Merit description of fate of Nlamo the interpreter books Nlamo Angami Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Nlamo stayed with me until I left the Naga Hills and accompanied me on all m...
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Chapter Two. Feasts Of Merit a visit to Khonoma; Khonoma's influence books Angami Khonoma Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 With Nlamo's help I began questioning old Angami men about their customs, and t...
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Chapter Two. Feasts Of Merit description of Khonoma fortress books Angami Khonoma Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Khonoma stands on the crest of a ridge, a natural fortress; on all sides the slopes fal...
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Chapter Two. Feasts Of Merit the Khonoma Feasts of Merit books Angami Khonoma Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The headmen of Khonoma gave me the most friendly reception and I spent hours photographing ...
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Chapter Two. Feasts Of Merit a rebellion in Khonoma in 1879 books Johnstone/ Col. Angami Khonoma Kohima Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 In 1879 a rebellion started by Khonoma swept over the whole Angam...
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Chapter Two. Feasts Of Merit the siege of Kohima in 1944 books Pawsey/ C.R. Angami 1944 Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 How different was the siege of 1944. Both sides were then armed with modern weapo...
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Chapter Three. An Orgy in Stone description of ruined gate at Dimapur books Mills/ J.P. Dimapur Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 (25) Swarms of shrieking parrots flew off low boughs as Mills and I appro...
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Chapter Three. An Orgy in Stone ruined city of Dimapur books Dimapur Dhansiri R. Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 A little way off rose the red brick ruins of a powerful gateway. The reliefs on the with...
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Chapter Three. An Orgy in Stone ruins of Dimapur books Dimapur Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 We passed through the arch of the gateway and found ourselves once more under high trees. No ruined wall b...
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Chapter Three. An Orgy in Stone fertility feasts and memorials at Dimapur books Dimapur Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 As the jungle thinned, the path opened out on to a large space, where well over f...
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Chapter Three. An Orgy in Stone bloodthirsty relations between Nagas and plainsmen; Kacharis and Ahoms books Konyak Ahom Kachari Tanhai Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 During the sixteenth century the ...
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Chapter Three. An Orgy in Stone journey from Manipur Road to Simaluguri by train books Mills/ J.P. Simaluguri Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The ruins of Dimapur lie quite near the railway station of ...
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Chapter Three. An Orgy in Stone by narrow gauge railway to edge of Konyak country books Castles/ G. Borjan Colliery Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 A narrow-gauge railway connected Simaluguri with Nagi...
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Chapter Four. Above the Clouds description of thick mountain forest slopes books Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 (30) Thin mist filled the forest, and the trunks of huge creeper-clad trees rose ...
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Chapter Four. Above the Clouds first encounter with Konyaks from Wakching, including Shankok books Shankok Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 We were already high up -- certainly well over...
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Chapter Four. Above the Clouds offer of bitter tea books Mills/ J.P. Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The men from Wakching offered us tea; it tasted dreadfully bitter. But this was not really su...
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Chapter Four. Above the Clouds description of ordinary clothing of Konyaks, nakedness books Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The Konyaks reached up to somewhere near Mills' shoulder, but their sl...
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Chapter Four. Above the Clouds arrival at Wakching in thick fog; warned not to enter unadministered territory books Mills/ J.P. Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 When we arrived at Wakchi...
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Chapter Four. Above the Clouds magnificent views from inspection bungalow books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 From the other side of the bungalow I looked over the broad valley of the...
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Chapter Four. Above the Clouds mist books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 When I woke up on the morning after our arrival, it seemed as though we were on an island, or rather on one of ...
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Chapter Four. Above the Clouds walking up through corpse platforms, effigies, skulls and coffins books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The gaonbura came to the bungalow after breakfast,...
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Chapter Four. Above the Clouds village granaries; lovers' sleeping places; beliefs concerning magic of fertility books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Leaving the corpse-platforms, we p...
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Chapter Four. Above the Clouds gangway and lookout-tree books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 At the entrance of the village proper a mighty banyan tree stretched in a wide bow over the...
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Chapter Four. Above the Clouds front of morung and description of morung carvings books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The men's house or morung appeared, with its open front, like the...
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Chapter Four. Above the Clouds further description of morung carvings books Fantastic carvings adorned the open porch of the morung the head and tusks of an elephant, a life-sized leopard running head...
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Chapter Four. Above the Clouds people working on porch of morung books Mills Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 A few men sat about on the open porch, plaiting baskets and mending their fi...
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Chapter Four. Above the Clouds money replacing barter; matches and umbrellas; the collection of artefacts books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 One of the men had a pretty box, carved i...
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Chapter Four. Above the Clouds the Konyak houses, a comfortable feeling books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The Konyaks, however, are not so particular. They do not in the least mind ...
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Chapter Four. Above the Clouds gardens, pigs as garbage collectors books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 These carefully fenced in little gardens are almost the only places where one is...
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Chapter Four. Above the Clouds two hundred and fifty houses in Wakching, winding paths; payment of tribute books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Narrow paths thread the thicket growing ...
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Chapter Four. Above the Clouds strangers with fantastic head-dresses and tattoos books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 When we returned to the bungalow after a whole morning's visiting ...
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Chapter Four. Above the Clouds description of the chief of Sheangha; monkey skull head-dress chiefs from unadministered territory bring cases to Mills books Mills/ J.P. Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendor...
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Chapter Four. Above the Clouds autocratic position of Naga Angs books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The appearance of the chief of Sheangha, and the deference with which his followers...
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Chapter Four. Above the Clouds gift of goat and appreciation of cigarettes books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The Ang of Sheangha brought Mills a goat as a gift of welcome, and Mills...
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Chapter Four. Above the Clouds feuds between Totok and Chui and recent head-taking books Konyak Wakching Totok Chi (Chui) Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Many other people from across the frontier had ...
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Chapter Four. Above the Clouds visit to Shiong; linguistic differences books Konyak Wakching Shiong Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The next day we visited the small village of Shiong. Though lying wit...
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Chapter Four. Above the Clouds variations in hair-style from village to village; short skirts books Konyak Wakching Shiong Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Yes, Shiong is very different from Wakching. T...
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