The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

typescript 'Journey to Nagaland', by Mildred Archer. An account of six months spent in the Naga Hills in 1947

caption: visit to Chungtia
caption: walk to Mokokchung
medium: diaries
ethnicgroup: Ao
location: Chungtia
date: 12.7.1947
production:
person: Archer/ Mildred
date: 9.7.1947-4.12.1947
text: The headmen received us at the gate and conducted us along the street. Dogs barked, sows and piglets scattered left and right, women with babies at their breasts peered out of doors, the braver children dashed up to look, roared with laughter and dived back into their houses.