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 Khensa, Chungtia and Aliba
caption: gate at Chungtia
medium: tours
ethnicgroup: Ao
location: Chungtia
date: 11.2.1947
production:
person: Archer/ W.G.
date: 31.12.1946-14.2.1947
text: Like Khensa, Chungtia has a huge gate hewn from a single tree. There are no carvings but lines based on the chang 'ostrich feather' pattern are painted in black on the inner side.