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 Yekhum and Sanis
caption: trip to Kohima
caption: women's dress
medium: diaries
ethnicgroup: Lhota
date: 14.8.1947
production:
person: Archer/ Mildred
date: 9.7.1947-4.12.1947
text: The Lhotas, especially the women, seem drabber and far uglier than the Aos. All the Lhota women I have so far seen are dressed in grubby blouses with drab tight skirts well above the knee. There seem nowadays to be no standard tribal clothes for the women. Their hair hangs down on the nape of the neck in an untidy bun, tied round with hair strings. Their ornaments are dull-pewter and rough brass bracelets and black plantain-seed necklaces.
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