The Nagas

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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