The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

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

caption: Old stones at Gosutomi; many cases
medium: tours
ethnicgroup: Lhotas
location: Yeputhomi (Yepothomi) Gwutkutomi (Gosutomi)
date: 19.3.1929-20.3.1929
production:
person: Hutton/ J.H.
date: 11.3.1929-4.4.1929
acquirer:
person: Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford
refnum: Hutton Ms. Box 2
text: 19 March.
text: To Yepothomi via Gosutomi - a steep climb of some four miles, and then another four or so of up and down along the saddle. An infinity of cases here. They went on till nightfall and I suppose if I stopped 10 days they would go on the same. Gosutomi is a very old site and looks as if it had once been occupied by Lhotas. There is a fine ficus with stones beneath it and the path from the river passed between a couple of erect stones which the Gaonbura said marked a land boundary but did not know whose. There was a village fence of Euphorbia.
text: 20 March.
text: Halted Yepothomi. Heard cases most of the day and sent off a dak.