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:

letters from W.G. Archer to J.H. Hutton

caption:

visit to the Konyaks

medium:

letters notes

person:

Archer/ W.G.Hutton/ J.H.

location:

Longkhai Longmien (Longmein) Chi Mon Tsawlaw Mokokchung Tirap F.T. Wakching Wangla Oting Borjan

date:

2.3.1947

production:

person:	Archer/ W.G.
date:	1946-1948
refnum:	14:17

text:

(copy of a letter from WGA to J.H. Hutton)

text:

2nd March

text:

Dear Dr Hutton,

text:

.....I am writing this from Longkhai and wishing all the time that I could dip down into the valley and start to see Longmein, Chi and Mon. The Tsawlaw expedition was cancelled and so I took over at Mokokchung on 4th March. There is talk of packing all the Konyaks into Tirap Frontier Tract so I hurried over to Wakching to see them while I could. Head-hunting of course is still quite active and even at Wangla, they told me they would take a head next year when the new Ang got married and they hawled in a new log-drum. Oting, however, seems to have accepted the ban for recently all the young men of a morung qualified for face-tattoos by going on a symbolic raid to Sh[]. They did not take a head, did not even try for one but earned the tattoo by going across enemy land, dancing in a friendly village and coming back. Everyone is now awaiting 1948; and the Konyaks at any rate aren't standing any Congress Raj!

text:

...I leave Longkhai tomorrow and will try to get this letter off from Borjan.

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