The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

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

caption: Kuki spy at Lapvomi
medium: tours
person: Nihu
ethnicgroup: Kuki
location: Lapvomi Laniye R. (Lanier R.) Phozami Meluri (Melomi) Purr (Photsami)
date: 17.11.1917-18.11.1917
production:
person: Hutton/ J.H.
date: 10.11.1917-29.11.1917
acquirer:
person: Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford
refnum: Hutton Ms. Box 2
text: 17th
text: From Lapvomi down to the Lanier - about 7 miles. After Lapvomi a Kuki came to spy out the land. He was seen sniffing round the camping ground which we had left by the Lapvomi women who gave duhai. Nihu who had been left behind in the village gave chase, but the man vanished as soon as the alarm was raised.
text: 18th
text: Halted. Phozami came in, also Melomi and Photsami.
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