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: Tizu camp
caption: Naga swimming
medium: diaries
location: Nantaleik R. (Tizu R.)
date: 23.11.1947
production:
person: Archer/ Mildred
date: 9.7.1947-4.12.1947
text: The Nagas swim with an odd dog-paddle stroke, both hands moving together. The rest of the coolies formed a line lower down the stream and caught any fish that floated down. There was much laughter and splashing, pushing and shoving and soon a heap of silver fish with orange fins had been collected for tonight's supper.
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