The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript notes made by W.G. Archer between 1946 & 1948, and miscellaneous papers and letters

caption:

house carving

medium:

notes

keywords:

head-taking ancestors japs tallies

ethnicgroup:

Angami <Eastern

location:

Chizami (Chizema) Pfutsero

production:

person:	Archer/ W.G.
date:	1946-1948
refnum:	15:3

text:

E. Angami, Chizema, Pfutsero. Wooden heads on house front - usually only when a man had taken at least 5 heads did he start to put up wooden tallies - 1 or 2 would merely make him look ridiculous. Chizema was destroyed by the Japs but all the new houses have again displayed in wood the prowess of their ancestors.

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