The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

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

caption: Cold weather; the escaped prisoner is recaptured
medium: tours
ethnicgroup: SemaSangtam
location: Mungre (Shietz)
date: 15.3.1922
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: 15th
text: To Shietz, a mixed Sema and Sangtam village on the high range east of the Tita. It was exceptionally cold and windy and everyone caught chills. In the evening one of my dobashis got news of where the escaped prisoner was hiding and two of them went and made a quite clever arrest.