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:

head-taking practices

medium:

notes

keywords:

Kipuhe stone Abor expedition

person:

Krusihu Tsotonoma khel

ethnicgroup:

Angami

location:

Kohima

production:

person:	Archer/ W.G.
date:	1946-1948
refnum:	12:49

seealso:

Hutton, Angami Nagas, 48

text:

Angami - head taking practices.

text:

In Kohima when some ears and fingers were brought back from the Abor expedition, they were buried near the Kipuhe stone - (skulls taken in war were also buried by the stone).

text:

No one could sit on the stone (whether man or woman). (Krusihu) Connection of the stone with gate - Hutton notes that this is always near the gate (48). But not always - in the Tsotonoma Khel of Kohima, it is inside the Khel wall, and high up in the Khel fort.

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