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:

language; enemy heads

medium:

notes

ethnicgroup:

Angami <Eastern Sehmah

location:

Ungomah

production:

person:	Woodthorpe/ R.G.
date:	1881
refnum:	given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881

text:

At one village called Ungomah we came across some men who, though apparently Angamis in feature, build, architecture, and mode of cultivating, yet wore the dress of, and spoke a dialect identical with the Sehmahs, a neighbouring non-kilted tribe.

text:

The heads of enemies taken in battle or murder are fixed by spikes to the tops of long poles planted in rows along the pathway just outside the village.

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