The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

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

caption: Skull in the Pongithung mingethung
medium: tours
person: Sunga/ of TesiphenyuLangshen/ of Pongithung
location: Chipen-ru Pungitung (Pongithung)
date: 25.3.1927
production:
person: Hutton/ J.H.
date: 21.3.1927-3.4.1927
acquirer:
person: Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford
refnum: Hutton Ms. Box 2
text: 25 March
text: To Chipen-ru, where I met the Sub Divisional Officer, Mokokchung. About 7 miles. The Pongithung mingethung still contains the complete skull of one Sunga of Tesiphenyu taken by one Langshen of Pongithung sometime before 1879.
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