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

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Mutania Sermamen Borduaria Namsangia

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

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All the men of these tribes dress their hair in a similar fashion, i.e., it is shaved just above the ears, the remainder being taken back off the forehead and face, and tied in a knot behind; through this knot are passed curved strips of horn carrying waves of red and white or black hair. Some men have a small moustache, but few show anything like a beard.

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