The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

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

caption: An illicit distiller at Wokha
medium: tours
location: Koio (Koiyo) Longsa Lungsachung (Longsachung) Niroyo (Niroyu) Wokha
date: 19.11.1925
production:
person: Hutton/ J.H.
date: 16.11.1925-17.12.1925
acquirer:
person: Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford
refnum: Hutton Ms. Box 2
text: 19th November
text: To Koiyo (17 miles). At Longsa I stopped to give out medals to Longsa, Longsachung, and Niroyu.
text: The Wokha Gaonburas want to re-import a Gurkhali mistri who was turned out for distilling. They say no one makes daos so well as he does and doubtless his booze is also superlative. I referred them to S.D.O. and offered to have one of their boys trained as a blacksmith at the Fuller Technical School, but that is not what they want. They want their Mahabir back.