The Nagas

preparations for a tour to Tuensang diaries Sankalemba Chuba Akong Mong Auhukhyu Zehovi Hopongki Tuensang 2.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 2 November. Mokokchung. Today final preparations ...
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preparations for a tour to Tuensang plans for a new Sub-division at Tuensang diaries Yimchungr Chang Sangtam Tuensang 2.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 For many months now the plan for a ne...
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preparations for a tour to Tuensang new district officers diaries Zopianga Tuensang 2.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 It had also been hoped that the new S.D.O. could be appointed and that ...
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preparations for a tour to Tuensang diaries Tuensang 2.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 It is clear that this tour cannot set the new subdivision in motion. But the presence of the S.D.O. wi...
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preparations for a tour to Tuensang diaries Mayang Tuensang 3.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 3 November. Mokokchung. Mayang came in this afternoon to wish us a pleasant tour. As usual the ...
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Mayang's views on Pawsey's successor diaries Mayang Sailo/ Capt. Kevichusa 3.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 Mayang also enquired about this Lushai officer, Captain Sailo, and the rumour th...
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Mayang's reasons for Naga dislike of plainsmen diaries Mayang 3.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 I asked Mayang why such bitter feelings had grown up against the plainsman, as it is obvious ...
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leaving Mokokchung for Tuensang diaries Mokokchung Tuensang Dikhu R. 4.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 4 November. Chare. Since we were last out on tour the season has changed; the cold wea...
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the frontier diaries Hutton/ Dr 4.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 The first part of the march lay down to the Dikhu river. When Dr. Hutton went along this same track to Tuensang in 1923 at ...
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visit to Chare diaries Chare Dikhu R. 4.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 All the way to Chare the bridle path had been freshly cleared, weeds hoed and the undergrowth on either side cut back...
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visit to Chare log drum diaries Chare Pangsha 4.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 The log drum was close by. On the side of its shed was a panel carved with hornbills, human heads, the sun an...
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visit to Chare proposed visit to Lungtrok diaries Chuba Chare Lungtrok 4.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 The evening passed in talking to headmen and villagers. Bill suggested that the next...
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visit to Chare packing on tour diaries Zokutov Chare 6.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 6 November. Phire-ahire. We did not hurry off this morning and I sat by the hut watching the packing. ...
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visit to Chare school diaries Chare 6.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 Before setting out on the march we visited the Upper Primary and Lower Primary Schools at Chare. The Sangtams like the ...
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new bridle path linking Mokokchung with Tuensang diaries Chuba Sankalemba Chimei R. Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 Apart from the first three miles, the march today lay along a new bridle path whi...
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visit to Phire-Ahire diaries Sangtam Phire-Ahire 6.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 All today we halted at Phire-ahire, a Sangtam village, counted it and inspected the school. We played musi...
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visit to Phire-Ahire Chambesi's house diaries Chambesi/ of Phire-Ahire Sangtam Phire-Ahire 6.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 We visited the house of Chambesi, a young interpreter with a pre...
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visit to Phire-Ahire pets diaries Sangtam Phire-Ahire 6.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 The Sangtams seem particularly fond of animals and every house was full of hens with their broods, ca...
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visit to Phire-Ahire Y posts diaries Sangtam Phire-Ahire 6.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 Outside the houses were Y posts, the record of Feasts of Merit. They were higher with longer arms ...
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visit to Phire-Ahire Sangtam women diaries Sangtam Phire-Ahire 6.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 The Sangtam women looked most attractive with their smooth hair held by shining grass fillet...
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visit to Phire-Ahire diaries Sangtam Phire-Ahire 6.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 Great hills surround the camp. Yongimti stands out, an isolated cone, and its exposed summit explains the ...
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to Anangba via Holongba and Sangsoma; village hospitality diaries Holongba Sangsomo (Sangsoma) 7.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 7 November. Anangba. We spent the whole morning covering the...
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headman at Sangsoma diaries Sangsomo (Sangsoma) 7.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 At Sangsoma the headman was a vivid figure in scarlet, black and white. He wore great elephant-tusk bracele...
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view over the Tizu River diaries Nantaleik R. (Tizu R.) 7.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 The road today lay up and down rocky humpy hills overlooking the Tizu river and the rolling heights...
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headmen of Anangba diaries Churungchu/ of Anangba Hutton Anangba 7.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 At last we reached a hilltop where two brothers, the headmen of Anangba, were waiting with...
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camp on the site of a war-time American outpost at Anangba diaries Anangba 7.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 After drinking rice-beer these two headmen accompanied us to the camp which is o...
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girls from Chimongre diaries Anangba Chimongre 7.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 A huge crowd was waiting at the camp - mainly to look at me, the interpreters said. Some girls from Chimongr...
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toffee at Churungchu's house diaries Churungchu Hutton Pawsey Anangba 7.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 This evening we went to Churungchu's house where he gave us the same kind of toffee m...
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head-hunting memories diaries Churungchu Pukovi Hutton Chuba Anangba Chongtore 7.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 Here we are in a different world from Mokokchung. Politics has given place t...
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Churungchu, a were-leopard diaries Churungchu Anangba 7.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 Then Churungchu dreamily told us how he is a were-leopard. There are a number of leopard and tiger ma...
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girls dancing at Anangba diaries Chuba Anangba Chongtore 8.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 8 November. Anangba. Everyone has had a miserable night. After midnight the cold seeped in through...
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warriors' dance at Anangba diaries Churungchu Anangba 8.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 As they were finishing, there was a bloodcurdling cry, the cat-call of the successful warrior returni...
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camp at Anangba diaries Sankalemba Imlong Anangba 8.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 After the dancing everyone lay round on the ground in the sun drinking rice-beer, chatting and staring. T...
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the frontier diaries Chuba Chang Yimchungr Kalyo Kengyu Nantaleik R. (Tizu R.) 9.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 9 November. Chingmiren. The exciting part of the tour has now begun. By 4.30...
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visit to Helipong diaries Helipong 9.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 At last we emerged on to a rocky windy hilltop where a Chang headman and his Yimchungr wife were waiting with rice-beer....
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visit to Chingmiren diaries Chingmiren Chamyung R. 9.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 Reluctantly we left the village and dropped steeply down the hillside to the Chamyung river, a small str...
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visit to Chingmiren granaries diaries Chingmiren 9.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 On our way to the camp I noticed the Chang granaries, mounted on piles with a circular wooden disk at the ...
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visit to Chingmiren camp diaries Chingmiren 9.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 Crowds of villagers with presents of pigs, fowls and eggs were waiting in the camp and again Bill explained to ...
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visit to Chingmiren poverty in the Trans-frontier region diaries Chingmiren 10.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 10 November. Tuensang. Before leaving Chingmiren this morning, the headmen wer...
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visit to Chingmiren drum houses in disrepair diaries Chingmiren Holongba Sangsomo (Sangsoma) 10.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 As in Holongba and Sangsoma, the drum houses had fallen into ...
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march to Tuensang diaries Tuensang Chingmiren Helipong Pangsha 10.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 The march to Tuensang was a gentle eight miles through fields and forest dappled with sunsh...
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camp at Tuensang diaries Tuensang 10.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 As we emerged from the woods, we saw Tuensang sprawling over the hills below, a huge village. In a field I could see its...
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camp at Tuensang Pangsha's fine of mithan diaries Tuensang 10.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 Under the trees in front of the camp were ten large mithan peacefully grazing. Bill smiled with...
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camp at Tuensang explaining about the new Sub-division at Tuensang diaries Tuensang Pangsha 10.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 All the afternoon I have felt like an animal at the zoo. We si...
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camp at Tuensang diaries Tuensang 10.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 During the afternoon a large mithan was brought by the Chang tribal council and slaughtered. It has been carefully divid...
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camp at Tuensang diaries Tuensang Chingmei 11.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 11 November. Tuensang. Every day brings its fresh excitements. Today the villagers of Chingmei, a Chang village...
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camp at Tuensang Phom carvings diaries Yakching Phom Tuensang 11.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 Amongst the visitors was Yakching, the Phom woodcarver who has been making chungas for Bill....
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camp at Tuensang warriors' parade diaries Tuensang 11.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 When the salaams were finished and rum and red cloth had been given to the headmen, the crowd formed a ...
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camp at Tuensang warriors' dance diaries Tongpong/ of Chingmei Chingmak/ of Chingmei Bundo/ of Chingmei Hutton Mills Tuensang 11.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 The parade over, shields and...
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camp at Tuensang fire at Tuensang diaries Tuensang 11.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 At midday when the dancing was about to end, there was a sudden cry of 'Fire'. The whole crowd stampede...
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camp at Tuensang house counting diaries Tuensang 11.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 In the afternoon we walked through Tuensang counting the houses and visiting the headmen. It is an enormo...
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camp at Tuensang Chang houses diaries Tuensang 11.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 The Chang houses are quite different from those of other tribes. They have sharply sloping roofs with great...
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camp at Tuensang morungs diaries Tuensang 11.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 The morungs like the houses have high sloping roofs and wooden hornbills, fish and chains of bamboo rings dangle...
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camp at Tuensang head hunting diaries Tuensang 11.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 Now we are over the frontier head-hunting is bound up with every aspect of life; dancing, song, village arc...
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camp at Tuensang burnt-out houses diaries Tuensang 11.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 As we returned from the village and passed the site of the fire, a few men were putting up leaf camps f...
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camp at Tuensang attitude of Gurkhas to Indians diaries Tuensang 11.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 This evening the Gurkha subahdar came into our hut for a drink and the talk gradually cam...
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site of the new Sub-division diaries Tuensang 12.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 12 November. Tuensang. Today everyone has enjoyed a day's leisure. The porters and sepoys have washed their ...
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men and women dancing at Tuensang diaries Tuensang 13.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 13 November. Tuensang. This morning we again visited the village and watched two of the clans dancing. ...
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presentation of daos diaries Tuensang 13.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 In the evening the presentation daos were divided out between the interpreters, porters and sepoys. I had no idea it...
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tour in Yimchungr country diaries Yimchungr 14.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 14 November. Kuthurr. Yesterday we left the Chang country and entered the Yimchungr land by narrow field and j...
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tour in Yimchungr country visit to Kuthurr diaries Yimchungr Kuthurr 14.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 Once again there was a great assembly of Kalyo-Kengyu, Chang and Yimchungr villagers,...
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tour in Yimchungr country women's dress diaries Yimchungr 14.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 The women have peculiar way of doing their hair. They knot their tail of hair into a loop at the...
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tour in Yimchungr country diaries Yimchungr Longtrok 14.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 Throughout the last two days clouds have been gathering on the hilltops and today a storm came bluste...
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tour in Yimchungr country diaries Aokukyu Yimchungr 15.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 15 November. Yimchungr Anr. After yesterday's rain the night was bitterly cold, but we woke to a seren...
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visit to Yimchungr Anr diaries Yimchungr Yimtsong-Awenrr (Yimchungr Anr) 15.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 The headmen of Yimchungr Anr were waiting where the path left the river bed and r...
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visit to Yimchungr Anr quarrel between Chashir and Cheshorr diaries Yimchungr Yimtsong-Awenrr (Yimchungr Anr) Chashirr (Chashir) Cheshorr 15.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 The afternoon ha...
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visit to Yimchungr Anr effect of the war in the unadministered area diaries Yimchungr Yimtsong-Awenrr (Yimchungr Anr) 15.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 This evening as we sat round the fir...
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visit to Yimchungr Anr strength of Naga tribes in Burma diaries Yimchungr Yimtsong-Awenrr (Yimchungr Anr) Tsawlaw 15.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 There is much talk too of the strength o...
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visit to Cheshorr diaries Aohukyu/ of Cheshorr Yimchungr Cheshorr 18.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 18 November. Cheshorr. Here we are in the heart of the Yimchungr country, in the biggest...
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visit to Cheshorr headmen diaries Mukam/ of Cheshorr Yimchungr Cheshorr 18.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 The Cheshorr headmen are fine figures, both over six feet tall. Aohukyu's father i...
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visit to Cheshorr dance and dress diaries Yimchungr Cheshorr 18.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 The village danced for us this afternoon. Next Previous
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visit to Cheshorr jhuming diaries Yimchungr Cheshorr 18.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 Although we are amongst small villages and in a wild part of the Naga Hills, the forest between Tuens...
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visit to Cheshorr lack of log drums through lack of timber diaries Yimchungr Cheshorr Yimtsong-Awenrr (Yimchungr Anr) Tuensang 18.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 There were no log-drums in ...
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visit to Cheshorr camp at Cheshorr diaries Yimchungr Cheshorr 18.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 The villagers of Cheshorr have built us an excellent camp. Our hut must be about sixty feet ...
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tour in Yimchungr country diaries Yimchungr Tita R. Zungki R. (Zungkhi R.) Nantaleik R. (Ti-ho R.) Huchirr Sangrupu 20.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 20 November. Sangrupu. Today we were s...
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tour in Yimchungr country diaries Yimchungr Ayepongr 20.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 Bill went on to Ayepongr, a village which had never been visited by a European. It was a small Yimchu...
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tour in Yimchungr country visit to Huchirr and Sangrupu diaries Yimchungr Huchirr Sangrupu 20.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 When he returned we visited Huchirr and Sangrupu which had neve...
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tour in Yimchungr country diaries Kahutu senior Yimchungr 20.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 The elder Kahutu, the chief Sema interpreter, has just joined the camp and tomorrow we shall lea...
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visit to Litsimi diaries Sema Litsimi Tita R. Zungki R. (Zungkhi R.) 21.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 21 November. Litsimi. After a showery night with rain dripping through the grass roof...
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visit to Litsimi diaries Sema Litsimi Helipong 21.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 We climbed straight up from the camp over a mountain ridge to Litsimi on the far side. The hill was a conti...
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visit to Litsimi diaries Sema Litsimi Nantaleik R. (Tizu R.) 21.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 Once over the ridge, the familiar Tizu valley lay below us and the hills of the Sema and Ao c...
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visit to Litsimi camp at Litsimi a fight diaries Hevetu Sema Litsimi 21.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 The camp is in a small hollow in the woods amongst alders hanging with yellow catkins...
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visit to Litsimi Sema songs diaries Sema Litsimi 21.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 After dark some of the villagers came to sing their old Sema songs. A fire was lit and we all crouched ro...
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visit to Litsimi rice-pounding songs diaries Hevetu Sema 22.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 Sema rice-pounding song 22 November. Tizu camp. As the next camp was only five miles away we spen...
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Tizu camp diaries Nantaleik R. (Tizu R.) 22.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 After a luscious meal of pork, beans and sweet potatoes, we set off for the next camp dropping steeply down to th...
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Tizu camp diaries Nantaleik R. (Tizu R.) 23.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 23 November. Tizu camp. It has been a brilliantly sunny day and everyone has lounged about resting on the grass. ...
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Tizu camp Baptist Mission Convention; the Hopa diaries Nantaleik R. (Tizu R.) Aichisagami (Aichasagami) 23.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 All day a stream of villagers has been coming down...
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Tizu camp fishing with hand-grenades diaries Nantaleik R. (Tizu R.) 23.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 In the afternoon the subahdar and his Gurkhas decided to go fishing with a hand-grenad...
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Tizu camp Naga swimming diaries Nantaleik R. (Tizu R.) 23.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 The Nagas swim with an odd dog-paddle stroke, both hands moving together. The rest of the coolies f...
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to Aichasagami; Hopa meeting hall diaries Shoizhu 24.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 24 November. Aichasagami. We are back again on the ordinary bridle path and halting the night in a rest ...
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Hopa meeting hall at Aichasagami diaries Aichisagami (Aichasagami) 24.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 In Aichasagami we saw the Hopa meeting hall, a great bamboo and palm-leaf hut with two ...
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dilemma of the Naga flag and future government diaries Pawsey Mayang Aliba Subong Zunheboto (Zenibotto) 24.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 With the bridle path we have returned to politics....
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Naga People's Day, 21st November diaries 25.11.1947 21.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 25 November. Longsa. Here Ao interpreters were waiting with more political news. November 21st was 'Na...
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refusal by Governor of Assam to meet NNC delegation until they withdraw their ultimatum diaries Aliba Nehru Hydari 25.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 There was also the news that Aliba had ...
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head-taking in the Phom country diaries Phom Phomching (Phomchung) Pongu (Pongnyu) Mongnyu Shamnyu 25.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 News had also come that a Phom of Phomchung has killed ...
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feast to celebrate the end of the Tuensang tour diaries 25.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 Tonight after dark we had a feast to celebrate the end of the tour. Porters, sepoys, servants and ...
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leaving the Naga Hills diaries 30.11.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 30 November. Chongliyimsen. After four days hectic packing, we set off today on the long tramp down to the plains and the r...
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leaving the Naga Hills diaries Kahutu 1.12.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 1 December. Lakhuni. As we dropped down the hills, the distant view of the plains reminded us that the cold weather h...
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leaving the Naga Hills threat by NNC to leave the Indian Union on 5th December diaries Pawsey Mayang Kevichusa Yachen Kheloshe Longri Aliba 2.12.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 2 December. Cha...
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leaving the Naga Hills news that the threat to leave the Indian Union is postponed diaries Shoizhu Mayang Pawsey 3.12.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 3 December. Charali. Not so dramatic after...
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leaving the Naga Hills diaries Kahutu Zehovi Aohukyu Rivhemo 4.12.1947 Archer/ Mildred 9.7.1947-4.12.1947 4 December. In the Assam Mail. Once again the train moves down the long valley between the tea...
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