The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

published - extracts from 'Descriptive Ethnography of Bengal' on Nagas by E.T. Dalton

caption: Section 7. (2) - The Kukis
caption: lack of change in sixty years
medium: articles
person: Steward/ Major
production:
person: Dalton/ E.T.
date: 1872
text: It is not uninteresting to observe that the exhaustive notice of the Kukis in Kachar by Major Steward, of which the details I have given are an imperfect abstract, shows that notwithstanding their repeated emigrations they have not in their most salient characteristics swerved from the customs of their forefathers, as depicted by the author in the Researches quoted above, who wrote about them sixty years ago.
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