The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - 'Diary of a Tour in the Naga Hills, 1922-1923' by Henry Balfour

caption:

Morungs, xylophones, stamping-boards, dancing-floors and houses at Tamlu

medium:

diaries

person:

Bailey/ Dr Mills/ J.P.Wong/ of Tamlu

ethnicgroup:

Konyak

location:

Merangkong Tamlu Kanching (Chota-Kanching) Yongyimti (Yongiemdi)

date:

11.11.1922

production:

person:	Balfour/ Henry
date:	1922-1923

acquirer:

person:

Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford

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text:

Sat. Nov. 11th.

text:

Said goodbye to Dr. Bailey who had been most kind in coming such a long way to see me. Mills & I left Merangkong for Tamlu (8 miles). I rode all the way. On the way we stopped at Chota-Kanching, a Konyak village, about half-way to Tamlu. I sketched a xylophone in a morung & noted a very fine monoxylic stamping-board, 11.5 yds long, 3 ft. wide & 1.5 ft. deep,

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