The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

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

caption: Pig hunt at Chantongia
medium: tours
location: Mongsenyimti (Mongsemdi) Chantongia Dikhu R. Merangkong
date: 23.7.1929-25.7.1929
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: 23 July.
text: To Mongsemdi.
text: 24 July.
text: To Chantongia. In the night the village surrounded a herd of pig.
text: 25 July.
text: In the morning we went down to the Dikhu - 3000 feet and very steep, to see the pig hunt. Unfortunately the pig were not there and we climbed up in great heat and went on to Merangkong.