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Chobama - Mesolozumi land dispute; Tangkhul traders from Burma going to Kohima to buy iron; stone grave statues at Thetsumi; wooden vats |
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24th. To Thetsumi. (Thecholumi). - About twelve miles - the path going up and down and very deviously in heavy jungle on the ridge above the bridle path. It drizzled most of the way. Before leaving the bridle path I heard part of a long and complicated land dispute between Chobama and Mesolozumi and sketched the land in dispute. On the way I met three Tangkhuls from Pansat in Burmese Somra going in to Kohima to buy iron; they more often go to Imphal than Kohima, I think. I have never heard of their coming so far west before. |
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Outside Thetsumi a carved sandstone grave statue, just like the wooden ones but armless. I have not seen them in carved stone before but Thetsumi asserted that they always made them like that. I find big wooden vats - pipa are always made here with a hole through the bottom. If not they split, the hole is filled up with a wooden plug. A dugout long vat was spoken of in Assamese as 'nau'. |
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A cold and wet camp at over 6000 ft., on the site levelled by Thecholumi a few years ago because a girl prophesied that a black king would build his palace there. |
