The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

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

caption: Complicated land dispute between Kiyekhu and Zhekiya
medium: tours
location: Sakhalu Kiyekhu Zhekiya
date: 13.7.1929
production:
person: Hutton/ J.H.
date: 3.7.1929-1.8.1929
acquirer:
person: Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford
refnum: Hutton Ms. Box 2
text: 13 July.
text: To Sakhalu. On the way I disposed of a long-standing land partition case between Kiyekhu and Zhekiya who have been squabbling about their jhums for a long time. The case was complicated by the fact that while two branches of the family held land in both villages two more held land in Kiyekhu only, so that it could not be settled by merely dividing the village land into two and washing out approximately equivalent rights in the opposite villages.