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Administration of an oath by diving; revenue avoidance by sharing fireplaces |
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1/6/1926 To Tesangki, where I disposed of the Thenjol - Jesami land dispute, renewed gun licences and heard a number of minor cases. |
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2/6/1926 Halted Tesangki employed as on the first. All day it poured with rain in a solid sheet. I went down to the river in the morning just as the rain started to administer a diving oath between a Kuki and a Kacha Naga. The pool would only hold one as the other was caught by the current and washed out when he tried to dive, so I made them dive one at a time and timed them. The Naga won by half a minute almost completing 60" under water. |
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I find that it is the usual practice in the Kuki and Kacha Naga country for a man sometime two or three brothers [sic] to marry and stay on in the parental house using the same fire-place as their parents. By so doing they avoid paying revenue, as the separate fire-place, usual among the Angamis in such cases, has everywhere been taken as the test. It clearly does not apply here and obviously every able-bodied married man ought to be paying revenue. The difficulty will be to enforce any order that is issued. Evasion will be so easy. |
