The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

typescript - J.H. Hutton's tour diary in the Naga Hills

caption: Attempted escape of one prisoner
medium: tours
location: Lazare (Lazarr)
date: 12.3.1922
production:
person: Hutton/ J.H.
date: 1.3.1922-23.3.1922
acquirer:
person: Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford
refnum: Hutton Ms. Box 2
text: 12th
text: Halted at Lazarr as everyone was very tired having got in so late. In the afternoon one of the wretched prisoners attempted to escape. It was a sporting effort, but he was chased and caught. It made an evening's sensation.