The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

diaries kept by Ursula Graham Bower on visits to Manipur and North Cachar between 1937 and 1940

caption: Tuinem to Shongphel
medium: diaries
date: 1.3.1939
production:
person: Graham Bower/ Ursula
acquirer:
person: private collection
text: (172) Tuesday, March 1st. Shongphel. 11.
text: Another dispensary, this time many babies. Luikai still at it, but the last patient defeated him. It shrieked like a rusty nail and a saw, out of sheer cussedness, mostly, and got on my nerves to such an extent I wanted to brain it. Got off about 10.30, took some cine photos and others.
text: Warmer here. There is a big jhum down the hill, and I saw the glare and the (173) smoke just now. Found the headband on my Chingjaroi basket had gone missing; raised Cain; half the coolies and Luikai now making me a new one. Hope its all right.
text: No chit from Paddy.