The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

typescript - J.H. Hutton tour diaries in the Naga Hills

caption: Boundary dispute between Jakhama and Mima
medium: tours
location: Zhakhama (Jakhama) Mima Kohima
date: 7.8.1917-9.8.1917
production:
person: Hutton/ J.H.
date: 7.8.1917-9.8.1917
acquirer:
person: Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford
refnum: Hutton Ms. Box 2
text: COPY OF TOUR DIARY OF J.H. HUTTON, ESQ., I.C.S., DEPUTY COMMISSIONER, NAGA HILLS FOR 7TH. AUGUST TO 9TH. AUGUST 1917
text: 7th August, 1917
text: To Jakhama to settle a boundary dispute between Jakhama and Mima.
text: 8th
text: Halted Jakhama. The case was complicated and partly arose from a bad decision by a former E.A.C. who had not even taken the trouble to correctly record the order given, and as that order rested on a village oath I was not able to go behind it, but patched it up as well as I could. I am afraid it will not prevent future disputes, I went first to Jakhama to see one side of the valley and then came back and went out to Mima on the opposite spur to see the other side. The order will be found recorded in Political Case No. 9 of 1917.
text: 9th
text: Returned to Kohima.