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: morung at Aliba
medium: tours
ethnicgroup: Ao
location: Aliba
date: 11.2.1947
production:
person: Archer/ W.G.
date: 31.12.1946-14.2.1947
text: (68) In Aliba the morung is very neat and smart though it was no longer used for sleeping purposes. Inside the hall are two huge pillars each carved with a massive tiger peering groundwards over a mithan's head.