The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

published - extracts from 'Account of the valley of Munnipore and of the Hill Tribes' by Major W. McCulloch

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house rooms

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articles

ethnicgroup:

Koupooee

production:

person:	McCulloch/ Major W.
date:	1858
refnum:	from: Selections from the Records of the Government of India, No. 27 (Calcutta) 1859

text:

The family, except the boys, from the time they begin to wear a cloth round their waist sleep in the rear room of the house, and in it they also cook their meals. In the front part any one who comes sits down. In it there is a fire-place and along the two sides are placed boards or bamboo platforms for sitting or lying upon. Some of these boards are as much as 24 feet long by 4 broad. They are made with their daos and little axes, a whole tree being destroyed in getting one.

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