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Visit to Phekrokejima: dispensary, carvings, houses, graves, livestock |
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Left LOZEMI at 8.45 a.m. & rode to PHEKROKEJIMA (7-7.5ms. 55m from Kohima). Very fine, sunny morning. Beautiful scenery of mingled jungle, panikhets & jhum-fields. Arrived at the inspection- bungalow at 10.20 a.m. Hutton & I visited the Dispensary which was in charge of Khosa (an Angami of Khonoma) the sub-assistant surgeon, who spoke English fairly well. I then went with Nikrihu & the gaonbura to the Angami village & looked around it. There are few carved houses, but the gaonbura's, at the top of the village, is carved with mithan heads & is elaborately painted in black, white & dull-red. Drank zu with the gaonbura & looked round his house, which is fairly large & divided by a transverse partition into two compartments. I photo'd the house & also some others from an observation platform. Saw several graves outside the village with large wooden effigies of the deceased. The gaonbura gave me a bullet-bow & bullets. I then walked round the outskirts of the village & photo'd graves with effigies. |
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Later, I went again round the village with Khosa, the Angami dispenser, & saw a number of mithan & their calves, under the verandahs & in the open spaces. Friendly beasts, unlike the water-buffalo, which dislikes Europeans & emphasizes the fact. There were some platform-graves studded with numbers of small roughly-carved pegs, about 2 feet high, stuck |
