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log-drums notes Holongba (Holungba) Noko (Nukhu) Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 5:42 Holungba. 1. Log drum with thin protruding neck and small face - 2 hornbill heads at the tail - a piece of skull nailed to ...
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log-drums notes Anungrang khel Anangba Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 5:42 Anungrang khel of Anangba. The log drum has a long thin neck ending in a swollen bulb - the front of the drum is open so that you can...
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log-drums notes Chuba Chongtore Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 5:43 'The drum is first because it is made first, the 'sacred place' is second because it is made second. The gate is third because it serves the...
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origin of buffalo head on log drum notes Chirongchu Anangba Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 5:44 The origin of the buffalo head on the log drum. 'In days long ago, a man went to take an enemy head. He could no...
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head-taking notes Chare Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 5:45 'We took heads to get our warriors' dress, to show our bravery. If we did not bring the head, no one would believe we had killed an enemy. When we b...
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head-taking notes Chuba/ of Chongtore Chirongchu/ of Anangba Hutton Chongtore Anangba Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 5:46 'It is good that head taking has been stopped. Formerly no woman could go alone to the...
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village warfare notes Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 5:47 War - tactics In attacking a village, an advance party of young warriors is sent ahead while a small party of older warriors wait to safeguard their r...
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tiger killing notes Hopongki Chuba Sangtam Chongtore (Chungtore) 27.4.1947 Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 5:48 Tigers. While I was camping at Chungtore (Sangtam) on 27th April 1947, a tigress killed a mithan ...
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attitude towards tigers notes Chalruse Sangtam Sangtam Sangtam <Northern Ao Thungare Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 5:49 If a man kills a tiger there is danger that the tiger's soul may strike him with sickne...
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attitude towards tigers and leopards notes Chuba Hopongki Sangtam Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 5:50 Tigers - leopards. If a man kills a tiger or leopard, he is genna exactly as if he had killed a man ie. fo...
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attitude towards tigers and leopards notes Chuba Mayang Adams Chirongchu Ao Sengraje 1939 Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 5:50 In 1939 Chuba shot a tiger in Sengraje, an Ao village. 'Adams Sahib said "You doba...
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attitude towards tigers and leopards were-leopards notes Chirongchu Sangtam <Southern Anangba Siphire Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 5:50 Hutton, 'Sema Nagas' 202 Chirongchu (gb. of Anangba) When I was born, ...
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attitude towards tigers and leopards notes Hopongki Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 5:50 Hutton, 'Sema Nagas' 77-78 Kanying - Sangtam word for tiger. leopard - cf. bagh - ie. a generic word - but special sort ...
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Sangtam houses notes Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 5:51 Sangtam houses. 1. Broken cooking pots on top of house = a tally of heads. 2. little carved birds on roof = wagtails (when a man has given a feast whic...
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Chatongre village notes Sangtam Chatongre Pangsha Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 5:52 Sangtam. At Chatongre the village entrance is lashed into place with thick fibres of a jungle creeper. It was liable to ge...
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Sangtam ear ornaments notes Sakhai (Sakai) Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 5:53 Sangtam. A small white conch shell in each ear marked in little black dots. SKETCH Headtaker met at Sakai. Next Previous
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dream recorded by J.P. Mills notes Mills/ J.P. Tolhopu Hanyemi Rangazumi 23.1.1936 Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 5:54 (note by J.P. Mills) Dream of Tolhopu of Hanyemi. Night of Jan. 22-23 1936 I dreamed last...
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Angami carving for the Sekrengi festival notes Sekrengi Kohima Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 7:1 Among Angamis skill in carving is very widely diffused. For the Sekrengi festival (February), new beer mugs an...
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Naga carving notes Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 7:2 Naga Carving. The great amount of social control. Each act of carving has a social purpose or is a social announcement - occasions for carving are very st...
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house carvings notes Lhota Rengma Sema Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 7:3 Lhotas - morungs only are carved. No gates - no field houses. Rengmas - No gates - morungs and private houses carved. No field houses....
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Sema Y posts notes Sema Sakhalu Yehimi Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 7:4 Sema Y posts. eg. Sakhalu - still standing. In Yehimi the custom was a new Y post for every mithan killed. The Y is a 'mithan's horns'...
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Aos and christianity notes Ao Khensa (Kensa) Asungma (Asangma) Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 7:5 Aos and Christianity. One of the 'ancient' customs which Aos found irksome is the rule that for any apotia dea...
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portrait of Mauwang notes Mauwang Chingai Shengha Mon Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 7:6 Mauwang. Not the most impressive personality. Too much of the clown and buffoon and I felt that the village as a whole ...
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Naga art notes Wesielie/ of Kohima Kohima Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 7:7 Hutton, 'Angami Nagas' 55 Wesielie of Kohima who painted the lowest cross board in the photo at p. 55 (mithan being led by a grazie...
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interpretation of dreams (Konyak) notes Chingai Konyak Punkhung Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 7:8 Dreams. Punkhung (Chingai) Konyak. If before a hunt you dream of intercourse, it means you will get an animal...
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interpretation of dreams (Konyak) notes Ka'she Konyak Chingtang (Chintong) Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:1 Chintong (Konyak) symbols. Dreams. Elephant - sickness. A Ka'she will come. Tiger/leopard - a good...
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interpretation of dreams notes Wanching Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:2 Wanching - dreams. Elephant - sickness Kill a tiger - good crops/ a sick man will get well. See a tiger and not kill it - the sicknes...
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bad omens notes Wanching Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:3 Wanching - bad omens. A cobra/ a python/ a tiger - a man will die at home. On raids. If a deer, jungle fowl or snake or any wild pai? crossed the pa...
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rebuilt Ao morung of Ungma notes moatzu Ao Ungma 4.1947 Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:4 Ao - morung - Ungma. In April 1947 about a month before the moatzu festival, one of the morungs was rebuilt. A new ca...
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Konyak morungs notes Konyak Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:5 In a Konyak morung there is always a great stir - a sense of life - people are always dropping in and out - a fire is blazing - some lie down and...
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portrait of Shankok notes Shankok Sikai Furer-Haimendorf/ Christoph Limaia Chinkak Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:6 Shankok has been happy with his wife for the last 8 years 'since his own first daughter ca...
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children's morungs notes Mauwang Konyak Oting Wangla Tanhai Punkhung Lunglam (Longlan) Longkhai Wakching Wanching Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:7 Konyak . Children's morungs cf. prep schools. Oting, Wangla...
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morung carvings notes Konyak Namsang Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:8 Konyak. Morung carvings. Namsang. New carvings can be installed at: 1. Re-building of a morung. 2. Repairing of a morung. 3. When an old...
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morungs at Chantongia notes moatzu Longzung khel Longdi khel Tiyung khel Ongpang khel Jamer khel Ao Chantongia Nokpur Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:9 Ao. Chantongia. Although majority of the village is now...
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Lhota morungs notes Tembothen khel Serengtheng khel Lhota Rephyim Yekhum Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:10 Lhota Morungs. Long narrow buildings - many of them abandoned dormitories - possessing only 2 carve...
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morung carvings at Kotsenyu, deities and dreams notes Aniza Asaki Achampo Atza-ang Asu Ai-wan genna burha Rengma Angami <Northern Kotsenyu Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:11 Rengma - Kotsenyu. The carvings a...
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morungs at Chingphoi notes Mum clan Wok-ha morung Angpan morung Chingphoi Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:12 Chingphoi - (Mon, Chi, Oting, Longkhai group.) Konyak. Wok-ha morung. Mum clan - only one clan - n...
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morungs at Wakching notes Thepong morung Palang morung Wakching Yungya (Yongya) Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:13 Wakching. Thepong morung. 3 wooden heads with straw shirt hanging from ceiling - got a bit o...
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morungs at Chintang notes Angnao morung Konyak Chingtang (Chintang) Mon Chi (Chui) Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:14 Chintang. Konyak. Angnao morung - carvings of elephants, leopards, leopard cubs, 4 monkey...
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Wanching clans notes Angwanhu clan Sanglonghu clan Shangmoihu clan Chuchu clan Angpan morung Totang morung Pala morung Chingchi morung Panchong morung Wanching Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:15 Wanching - c...
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Wakching morungs notes Shongnyu Ka'wang Ka'shi Angpang morung Pala morung Palang morung Aukeang morung Thepong morung Wakching Kongan (Kongon) 6.1947 Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:16 Wakching. The Ang's ho...
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Konyak carvings, girls and rice pounders notes Konyak Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:17 Konyak carving no relation to the actual human form. Girls - lithe round bodies - not at all flaby - little broad hips...
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Wanching morungs and Konyak clothing notes Angpan morung Pala morung Chingche morung Pongchang morung Konyak Wanching Kongan (Kongon) Tamlu Nian Namsang Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:18 Wanching. Angpan mo...
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morung carvings notes Konyak Punkhung Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:19 Punkhung (Konyak). None of the morungs have human figures. 'We used to carve them. Then all the morung boys began to die. So we took t...
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Lakhuni morung notes moatzu Ao Lakhuni Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:20 Lakhuni (Ao). 10 non-christian houses - 70 christians. A small open morung - no carvings - the christians are now too few to pull in ...
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tigers, and sleeping on granary verandahs notes Wakching Wanching Chingtang (Chintong) Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:21 Tigers - young men cannot eat - very old men can. Wanching and Wakching have the cust...
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girls houses (Konyak) notes Konyak Tamlu Kongan (Kongon) Chingtang (Chintong) Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:22 Tamlu and Kongon. Have separate girls' houses. At the Ang's house in Chintong, a portion at th...
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Kongon morungs and carvings notes Chingha morung Kankai morung Yongsa morung Handaku sept Cheshuhu sept Laktuhu sept Anyunba sept Konyak Kongan (Kongon) Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:23 Konyak morung carvi...
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Mon morungs notes Langya morung Langtok morung Tungan morung Konyak Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:24 Mon. Konyak. 3 morung. 1. Langya - man and woman on a post side by side - monkeys, leopards. 2. Langtok ...
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Oting morungs notes Angpan morung Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:25 Konyak morung. Oting. 1. Angpan morung (in Oting Long, Ting-on) 'Ang' posts - great open porch - cross board: men and women, tiger, monkey...
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Konyak head tallies notes Ang-mung/ of Aopao Konyak Shengha Longkhai Mon Aopao Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:26 Konyak. Wooden tally for wearing in the hair - bought from the Ang of Shengha for 2 Rs. His o...
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Tanhai morungs notes Akong morung Angpan morung Konyak Tanhai Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:27 Konyak morung. Tanhai. 1. Akong morung - crossboard - monkeys in a swinging line - porch - man - crossboard ma...
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Wangla morungs notes Chingchongpang morung Ang morung Nauchangpong morung Konyak Wangla Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:28 Konyak morung. Wangla. 1. Chingchongpang morung front crossboard - a man dancing bet...
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Mon morungs notes Konyak Mon Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:29 Konyak morung. Mon. 4 morungs - all with Ang clan members - a log drum in each morung - all skulls are kept in a special small morung just outs...
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Konyak morungs notes Konyak Wangla Hungphoi Oting Totok Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:30 Konyak. Ang - Ang morung - other morungs. Re heads, an Ang's house, or a morung with Ang clan members (and sometimes...
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Konyak head-hunting status notes Mon-tha Ang morung Oting Totok Sowa Dikhu R. (Dikku R.) Wangla Yungya (Yongna) Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:31 Konyak and headhunter's status. Ang morung. Mon-tha of Oting...
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tattooing and insignia of head-takers notes Wakching Wanching Kanching Tamlu Namsang Kongan (Kongon) Chingtang (Chintang) Tanhai Punkhung Choha Anphang (Angpang) Longkheng Sowa (Showa) Aopao Chinglong...
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Konyak morungs notes Konyak Ao Angami Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:33 Konyak. The morung as the vital index to the village - the source of its vitality - the means by which its health and prosperity is se...
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brass and wooden heads notes Konyak Longkhai Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:34 Konyak. Wearing little wooden heads (or brass ones) no genna re making them. I bought some without difficulty in Longkhai. Next...
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Longkhai morung notes Mauwang Konyak Longkhai Wakching Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:35 Konyak. Longkhai - the Ang morung. Has 'Ang' post outside it. When the morung was last repaired Mauwang carved an 'An...
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Punkhung morung notes Konyak Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:36 Konyak. Punkhung morung carvings. Formerly the Ang came from the lower morung - hence the 'Ang' serrated posts - His line died out - The new An...
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Longkhai morungs notes Lamun morung Ang morung Longkhai Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:37 Longkhai. Lamun morung - has Ang clan members and therefore 'Ang' posts outside - 2 of the 'Ang' posts have been car...
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Wakching morung carvings notes Pala morung Tepong morung Aukeang morung Angpan morung Wakching Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:38 Wakching - morung carvings. A new carving is made only when a morung is rebui...
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Tepong morung carving, Wakching notes Tepong morung Wakching Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:38 1. Tepong morung - a huge hall looking east over the hillsides - thick, palm leaf thatch coming almost to the g...
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Pala morung, Wakching notes Pala morung Wakching Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:38 2. Pala morung. Central post - boy and girl - boy with long penis, girl with swollen vagina - standing side by side facing ...
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Angpan morung, Wakching notes Angpan morung Wakching Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:38 Angpan morung lost most of its carvings by fire and not yet replaced. Next Previous
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Palang morung, Wakching notes Palang morung Wakching Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:38 3. Palang morung. A. A swirling rhythm - a tall thin warrior with erect organ stands on the torso of another warrior wh...
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Oukeang morung, Wakching notes Oukeang morung Wakching Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:38 4. Oukeang morung. Porch cross-board - man and woman - hornbills on either side - inside, centre post - elephant. Bac...
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Wakching morung carvings notes Palang morung Oukeang morung Wakching Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:38 Wakching morungs - carvings on 1. pillars. 2. cross-boards. 3. the sides and ends of the huge low bench...
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Tamlu morungs notes Tamlu Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:38 At Tamlu morung, benches had 'crescent moons' and 'gongs'. SKETCH Next Previous
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Shiong morung carvings notes Long-wok morung Shiong Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:38 Shiong. (Not a very vigorous or assertive village. A down- at- heel feel about it). 1. Long-wok morung. Cross-board - 2 ...
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Tamlu morung carvings notes Tamlu Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:38 Tamlu Lower morung. Centre posts - tiger and elephant. cross-boards - black and brown monkeys, hornbills. The huge hall very gloomy - smel...
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Merangkong morung notes Ao Merangkong Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:38 (At Merangkong - Ao morung had similar post 'those which a rich man put up after a mithan sacrifice'.) Next Previous
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Chota Kanching morung carvings notes Kanching (Chota Kanching) Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:38 Chota Kanching - the lower morung a huge elephant coming down the centre pole. 2 carved pillars. SKETCH Next ...
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morung at Tesophenyu notes Rengma Tesophenyu Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:39 Morung Tesophenyu Rengma. Huge, massive hornbills - beak to beak. SKETCH Next Previous
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Ao morungs notes Ao Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:40 The reason for the morung is the obvious inability of Ao parents to control their children and the susceptibility of the children to the opinion of thei...
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Konyak face tattoos notes Furer-Haimendorf/ Christoph Konyak Kongan (Kongon) Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 4:41 Konyaks. Grouping of villages into those who face-tattoo round the eyes and those who don't. (S...
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letter from Mills to Balfour partly about museum specimins letters notes Mills/ J.P. Balfour Chingkap/ of Phomching Hutton Phomching Chuchu Yimlang (Susu) Yacham Yungya Kamahu Dikhu R. 11.3.1923 Arche...
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Yimchungr Nagas notes Hutton Mills/ J.P. Furer-Haimendorf/ Christoph Yimchungr Kuthurr Yimtsong-Awenrr (Yimchungr Anrr) Cheshorr Huchirr Ayepongr Sangrupu (Satrupu) Helipong Saramati Mt. 11.1947 Arche...
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Yimchungr Nagas attitude to head-hunting notes Hutton Yimchungr Kuthurr Yimtsong-Awenrr (Yimchungr Anrr) Ayepongr Cheshorr Chashirr (Chasherr) Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 16:2 Hutton, 'Diaries' p.64 Even a...
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Yimchungr Nagas morungs and log-drums notes Hutton Yimchungr Sangpurr Cheshorr Yimtsong-Awenrr (Yimchungr Anrr) Huchirr Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 16:3 A similar waning interest is reflected in the state ...
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Yimchungr Naga dress notes Yimchungr Huchirr Ayepongr Sangrupu Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 16:4 In Huchirr, Ayepongr and Sangrupu (not previously visited) the women wear their cloth Sangtam style ie. as a ...
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tattooing notes Yimchungr Cheshorr Yimtsong-Awenrr (Yimchungr Anrr) Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 16:5 Cheshorr, Yimchungr Anrr - men no tattoos. Next Previous
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Y posts notes Yimchungr Cheshorr Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 16:6 Cheshorr - 1 small tall-stem Y post for a cow sacrifice. Next Previous
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Yimchungr villages and clothing notes Yimchungr Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 16:7 Yimchungr. General impression - the villages in the main resemble Sema ones - the houses wander down the sloping sides of a ...
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Chingmirem drum-houses and head-hunting notes Chang Yimchungr Chingmiren (Chingmirem) Helipong Phire-Ahire (Phire Ahire) Sangsomo Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 16:8 Chingmirem. Chang & Yimchungr very mix...
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death in Kuturr notes Yimchungr Kuthurr (Kuturr) Helipong Yamrup Chimongre Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 16:9 Kuturr - Yimchungr. Death - a man is buried in shallow grave inside his house - the earth heaped ...
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head-taking in Kuturr notes Yimchungr Kuthurr (Kuturr) Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 16:10 Kuturr - Yimchungr Head-taking - heads taken to the drum house - kept there one night - all the men sleep with it - ...
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cowrie aprons notes Yimchungr Kuthurr (Kuturr) Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 16:11 Kuturr - Yimchungr cowrie aprons - has gone on a raid at night - this is the one. A cowrie man on a cloak indicates a prison...
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sex and humour notes Yimchungr Kuthurr (Kuturr) Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 16:12 Yimchungr women - not unlike Eastern Angamis. Kuthurr. During the afternoon, the camp was raised by peels of excited laught...
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Yimchungre deforestation and lack of log-drums notes kusang mikuthung Yimchungr Chang Konyak Sangtam Yimtsong-Awenrr (Yimchungr Anrr) Cheshorr Huchirr Ayepongr Sangrupu (Sangrupo) Sangpurr Archer/ W.G...
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houses in Huchirr notes Yimchungr Sema Huchirr Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 16:14 In Huchirr one house with the carved house horns common among Semas - a bahadur's house - borrowed from Sema practice? Next ...
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Yimchungr morungs notes Yimchungre Ayepongr Sangrupu Huchirr Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 16:15 In Ayepongr (near Huchirr) a burnt-out morung but no drum (Yimchungr). In Sangrupu (just above Huchirr) a litt...
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Yimchungr drums and morungs notes Yimchungr Cheshorr Huchirr Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 16:16 In many Yimchungr villages only one big drum and a number of little 'empty' morungs in each khel - when a head...
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grave at Cheshorr and reflections on marriage notes ashilim Auhukhyu Makam Yimchungr Cheshorr Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 16:17 Cheshorr. Ceremonial reredos of a bahadur killed by a bear - met a bear in th...
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attitude to marriage and Yimchungr dress notes Makam Kamcho Yimchungr Sangtam Ao Cheshorr Chingmiren (Chingmirem) Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 16:18 Sangtams and Yimchungr - monogamy is the rule - divorce v...
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Yimchungr attitude to the soul notes Ritsaba Arimre asilim Yimchungr Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 16:19 Yimchungr. Souls. 1. Stays in a leopard [on death shift to a Sangchong ie. an animal smaller than a le...
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description of a cat-like animal notes Yimchungre Sangtam Sema Ao Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 16:20 Animal: Sangchong (Yimchungr/Sangtam) Akhinu (Sema) Ungerkaye (Ao) not a leopard or a tiger - but bigger ...
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use of enamel plates for decoration and leopard men notes Yimchungr Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 16:21 Yimchungr The enamel plate - in vogue for about 30 years - from plains - salt - no more artificial than...
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Yimchungr deities and death notes asilim Tembetimbu Ritsaba Yungpu Chizing Yimchungr Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 16:22 Asilim - the village of the dead founded by the first ancestors - the soul that in its...
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