The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

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

caption: The march to Chekwema; methods of agriculture and house decoration
medium: tours
keywords: alders
ethnicgroup: Chagyik
location: Zekwera (Yekura) Pulomi (Kenoma) Yang Khulen (Chekwema) Yang Khulen (Yangkhulen) Dzula R. Dzuku R. (Dzupvo R.) Yangnyu R. (Yangmun R.)
date: 7.6.1923-8.6.1923
production:
person: Hutton/ J.H.
date: 6.6.1923-18.6.1923
acquirer:
person: Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford
refnum: Hutton Ms. Box 2
text: 7th June
text: To Yekura - a nasty rainy day, Kenoma waiting there with cases.
text: 8th June
text: To Chekwema (Yangkhulen) via Kenoma. Starting at 5,600 feet, we went down to the Dzula - 4200, then up to Kenoma - 6050. Then down to the Dzupvo - 4250, then to Yangkhulen - 6000. It rained almost the whole time. The millet fields here sown with alders and terraced with logs are extraordinarily like those of the Chagyik Konyaks east of the Yangmun, and in both Kenoma and Chekwema I noticed the priests' houses had naked men carved with buffalo horns on them and a kilt depicted which might well have grown out of the representation of a cane belt.
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