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

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child-birth ritual

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diaries

ethnicgroup:

Lhota

location:

Yekhum

date:

14.8.1947

production:

person:	Archer/ Mildred
date:	9.7.1947-4.12.1947

text:

There was a michem tree just outside Yekhum, where after a child is born, the midwife takes the after-birth, wrapped up in bits of rag, and hangs it in a little basket on the tree, where the dogs and pigs cannot touch it. If they ate it, death or illness would strike the child.

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