The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

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

caption: school building work and road upkeep
medium: tours
location: Zekwera (Zhekwera) Khonoma Kohima Jotsoma
date: 22.9.1928-24.9.1928
production:
person: Hutton/ J.H.
date: 3.9.1928-24.9.1928
acquirer:
person: Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford
refnum: Hutton Ms. Box 2
text: 22 September
text: To Zhekwera. The Nakama-Benromi pandit applies to be made permanent. The school has been going a long time and has been very well reported of.
text: Arrived to find workmen as ordered according to them by the new Overseer building the Tower of Babel outside the Inspection Bungalow, amended the building of Babel.
text: 23 September
text: To Khonoma and babel or babble with a small b.
text: 24 September
text: To Kohima. There is an awkward slip at Jotsoma with a nulla above it. Probably it will go on slipping, and if firm ground for a wall cannot be found, and I doubt it cannot, the road should be carried on galleries for the present, till the movement subsides.