The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881

caption: roads
medium: notes
ethnicgroup: Angami
production:
person: Woodthorpe/ R.G.
date: 1881
refnum: given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881
text: The roads in the higher hills are constructed with considerable skill, the more precipitous slopes being turned with easy gradients, instead of the road or path being taken up and down the faces of the slopes, no matter how steep, as is the case with many of the hill tribes.