The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

typescript tour diary of W.G. Archer, S.D.O. Mokokchung 1947

caption: visit to Thenizumi
caption: young mens' dormitories
medium: tours
ethnicgroup: Angami <Eastern
location: Thenizumi
date: 18.1.1947
production:
person: Archer/ W.G.
date: 31.12.1946-14.2.1947
text: Unlike Cheswejumi, the village builds special houses for its young men and I was shown a hall which was used by a group of thirty of them. Great sleeping platforms ran round two of the sides and bedding was strewn in heaps along them. Apart from a puppet man which dangled from the roof, the only other object were some hanks of cotton hanging from the rafters. I was told there are no formal officials and no code of duties.
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