The Nagas

1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Litami Diyung R. (Doyang R.) visit to Litami tours Sema Litami Diyung R. (Doyang R.) 1947-01-31:1947-01-31 1947-02-01:1947-02-01 Archer W.G. 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 31st January A long and tiresome march to Litami. The path goes steeply down to the Doyang and then rises even ..
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Nye Capt. Mills J.P. Anderson B. Supplee George W. Lambert Eric 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Litami visit to Litami inspection bungalow register tours Nye Capt. Mills J.P. Anderson B. Supplee George W. Lambert Eric Sema Litami 1947-01-31:1947-01-31 1947-02-01:1947-02-01 Archer W.G. 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 ..
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Kolhoshe of Litami 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Litami visit to Litami christianity tours Kolhoshe of Litami Sema Litami 1947-01-31:1947-01-31 1947-02-01:1947-02-01 Archer W.G. 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 The Litami village is Sema and apart from six houses, it is now entirely christian. Services are held in a ..
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1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Litami visit to Litami houses tours Sema Litami 1947-01-31:1947-01-31 1947-02-01:1947-02-01 Archer W.G. 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Like other tribes, Semas have their own style in house architecture and apart from their general roominess and length the buildings are characterised ..
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1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Litami visit to Litami Y posts tours aitsukeba Sema Litami 1947-01-31:1947-01-31 1947-02-01:1947-02-01 Archer W.G. 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Outside the house of a gaonbura is a tall Y shaped post which was put up by him in his pre-christian days. nagaarchphotP48348.jpg naga..
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1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Litami visit to Litami young mens' house and house for girls tours Sema Litami 1947-01-31:1947-01-31 1947-02-01:1947-02-01 Archer W.G. 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Unlike Sema villages which are not Baptist the village has a young mens' house as well as a house for girls. The young ..
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1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Litami visit to Litami women's dress tours Sema Litami 1947-01-31:1947-01-31 1947-02-01:1947-02-01 Archer W.G. 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Although the village is almost completely christian most women wear dull red skirts with black bands and the men still wear the red Sema apron ..
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1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Litami Sasatami visit to Litami visit to Sasatami tours Sema Litami Sasatami 1947-01-31:1947-01-31 1947-02-01:1947-02-01 Archer W.G. 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 In Sasatami which is also Sema Baptist, the houses still retain their pre-christian emblems and apart from several with ..
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1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Lungkam visit to Lungkam tours Ao Lungkam 1947-02-02:1947-02-02 Archer W.G. 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 2nd February. This morning heavy rain kept me in. But about 11 the sun came out and I made a tour of the village. Next R65608 R65608 Previous R65606 R65606 tours Next visit to ..
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Chongli khel Mongsen khel 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Lungkam visit to Lungkam khels and the risk of fire tours Chongli khel Mongsen khel Ao Lungkam 1947-02-02:1947-02-02 Archer W.G. 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 The village consists of an upper and lower Khel. The upper is Chongli and the lower Mongsen. In 1943..
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1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Lungkam visit to Lungkam village gates tours Ao Lungkam 1947-02-02:1947-02-02 Archer W.G. 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Of the many things which perished in the last fire a luckless casualty was the village gate. This was in two parts and contained carvings of a warrior and a monkey. ..
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1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Lungkam visit to Lungkam morungs tours Ao Lungkam 1947-02-02:1947-02-02 Archer W.G. 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Other casualties in the fire were two morungs. These have been rebuilt only recently and they loom above the other houses in all the smartness of their new straw. In the ..
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Sangpu 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Lungkam Pangsha Lungsa visit to Lungkam warriors' dress and head-taking tours tsungrem Sangpu Ao Lungkam Pangsha Lungsa 1947-02-02:1947-02-02 Archer W.G. 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Warriors' dress is now awarded to all Aos of the village who have either served as porter on ..
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Chamtiba of Lungkam 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Lungkam visit to Lungkam house carvings and feasts of merit tours Chamtiba of Lungkam Ao Lungkam 1947-02-02:1947-02-02 Archer W.G. 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Carvings on private houses are, as elsewhere, linked to feasts of merit, but I noticed only two houses ..
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1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Lungkam visit to Lungkam houses tours Ao Lungkam 1947-02-02:1947-02-02 Archer W.G. 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Going round the village I was struck by the airy spaciousness of most of the houses. There is normally a single room with sometimes a screen at the end but the room is ..
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1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Lungkam visit to Lungkam dangers of tattooing tours Ao Lungkam 1947-02-02:1947-02-02 Archer W.G. 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 One of the village women has no legs below her knees. While she was being tattooed, the places went septic, and all the flesh and bone came away. I do not ..
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1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Mongsenyimti Lungkam head-takers' aprons and cloths tours Ao Mongsenyimti Lungkam 1947-02-06:1947-02-07 Archer W.G. 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 6th February On the way to Mongsenyimti I noticed a number of Ao all wearing the aprons of head takers and I was told that Lungkam is ..
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1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Mongsenyimti pipe smoking tours Ao Mongsenyimti 1947-02-06:1947-02-07 Archer W.G. 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 (57) A feature of all the Aos this side is pipe smoking. Almost every one has a pipe - old women, young girls, adult men, small boys. The pipes are of three kinds. A metal ..
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1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Mongsenyimti school carvings tours Ao Mongsenyimti 1947-02-06:1947-02-07 Archer W.G. 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 7th February A day in the village. Photographed the carvings on the school house. nagaarchphotP48362.jpg nagaarchphotP48363.jpg nagaarchphotP48987.jpg nagaarchphotP48988...
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1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Mongsenyimti Y posts tours Ao Mongsenyimti 1947-02-06:1947-02-07 Archer W.G. 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Many houses have Y posts in front of them, one for every mithan sacrificed. When you have given three such sacrifices you can erect a carved pillar. A house quite near the ..
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Chongli khel Yimbangrocho clan 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Mongsenyimti morungs and morung carvings tours Chongli khel Yimbangrocho clan Ao Mongsenyimti 1947-02-06:1947-02-07 Archer W.G. 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 There are at present two morungs, both of them with fully carved pillars and both in excellent ..
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1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Mongsenyimti abandoned log drum due to christianity tours Ao Mongsenyimti 1947-02-06:1947-02-07 Archer W.G. 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 (59) Further up the village and poised on a hill is a second log drum. The Khel is now christian and the log drum no longer possesses any shed or ..
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Kikanuksini 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Mongsenyimti Yungpung cemetery tours Kikanuksini Ao Mongsenyimti Yungpung 1947-02-06:1947-02-07 Archer W.G. 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Between the christian Khels and the rest of the village is a long cemetery. The former custom of exposing the dead is no longer ..
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Lima of Mongsenyimti 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Mongsenyimti house carving tours Lima of Mongsenyimti Ao Mongsenyimti 1947-02-06:1947-02-07 Archer W.G. 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Some distance to the south of the cemetery is the house of Lima, the dobashi. This was built nine years ago and although he had ..
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Mileva of Mongsenyimti 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Mongsenyimti Sangpo head tree tours Mileva of Mongsenyimti Ao Mongsenyimti Sangpo 1947-02-06:1947-02-07 Archer W.G. 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 At the present time the head-tree is a small and thorny tree set among the village houses and springing from a heap ..
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Lima Pungmenu clan Chaneri clan Songkong morung 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Mongsenyimti log drum rules and rituals tours moatzu Lima Pungmenu clan Chaneri clan Songkong morung Ao Mongsenyimti 1947-02-06:1947-02-07 Archer W.G. 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 During the evening I discussed with Lima the local rules..
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Furer-Haimendorf Lima 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Mongsenyimti Pangsha significance of heads 'captured' by Christoph von Furer- Haimendorf tours Furer-Haimendorf Lima Ao Mongsenyimti Pangsha 1947-02-06:1947-02-07 Archer W.G. 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Lima tells me that the four heads captured by Christoph at..
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1946-12-31:1947-02-14 visit to Ungr and Chuchu Yimlang tours Ao 1947-02-08:1947-02-08 Archer W.G. 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 8th February Today I walked to Ungr and Chuchu Yimlang and then back to Mongsenyimti. Next R65627 R65627 Previous R65625 R65625 tours Next visit to Ungr and Chuchu Yimlang Archer ..
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1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Ungri (Ungr) visit to Ungr and Chuchu Yimlang log drum and gate at Ungr tours Ao Ungri (Ungr) 1947-02-08:1947-02-08 Archer W.G. 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 At Ungr, an old village gate is standing by the log drum. On one side four large rings are cut in the wood and on the back two ..
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1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Mongnyu visit to Ungr and Chuchu Yimlang Phom carving tours Ao Phom Mongnyu 1947-02-08:1947-02-08 Archer W.G. 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 In a gaonbura's house I came across my first examples of Phom carving. The gaonbura had got them from Mongnyu, a Phom village 20 miles to the ..
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1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Ungri (Ungr) visit to Ungr and Chuchu Yimlang decline of morung at Ungr due to christianity tours Ao Ungri (Ungr) 1947-02-08:1947-02-08 Archer W.G. 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 At the end of the village is a new morung and by the side of it is the log drum. The morung itself has been..
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Lima 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Chuchu Yimlang visit to Ungr and Chuchu Yimlang log drums at Chuchu Yimlang tours Lima Ao Chuchu Yimlang 1947-02-08:1947-02-08 Archer W.G. 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 In Chuchu Yimlang there are two morungs and both are adjacent to log-drums. The first drum has 'ears' in front ..
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1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Chuchu Yimlang visit to Ungr and Chuchu Yimlang Y posts and house carving at Chuchu Yimlang tours Ao Chuchu Yimlang 1947-02-08:1947-02-08 Archer W.G. 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 In the village I noticed two magnificent Y posts in front of a gaonbura's house. Each was painted with ..
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1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Chuchu Yimlang visit to Ungr and Chuchu Yimlang morung and morung carvings at Chuchu Yimlang tours moatzu Ao Chuchu Yimlang 1947-02-08:1947-02-08 Archer W.G. 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 The other morung is in a vastly better condition. It contains six frontal pillars and all of them..
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1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Mokokchung tours Mokokchung 1947-02-09:1947-02-10 Archer W.G. 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 9th-10th February. Back on the 9th to Mokokchung - 10th getting ready for going to Kohima. Noticed in 'The Statesman' that Codrington and Basil Gray have arrived at Delhi and that the ..
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1946-12-31:1947-02-14 visit to Khensa, Chungtia and Aliba tours Ao 1947-02-11:1947-02-11 Archer W.G. 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 11th February Set out with the sky full of clouds but not the great roaring wind which buffeted the trees all the way on the 9th. Next R65635 R65635 Previous R65633 R65633 ..
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1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Khensa visit to Khensa, Chungtia and Aliba khel gates at Khensa tours Lungma genna Pukulalung genna Lyabamung genna Yimkalun genna Ao Khensa 1947-02-11:1947-02-11 Archer W.G. 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 At Khensa found that each Khel has a gate still firmly standing in a small shed...
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Chongli khel Mongsen khel Tamjenchosang of Khensa 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Khensa visit to Khensa, Chungtia and Aliba feasts of merit and house carving at Khensa tours Chongli khel Mongsen khel Tamjenchosang of Khensa Ao Khensa 1947-02-11:1947-02-11 Archer W.G. 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 'Ao Nagas', Mills ..
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1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Khensa visit to Khensa, Chungtia and Aliba morungs at Khensa tours Ao Khensa 1947-02-11:1947-02-11 Archer W.G. 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Although the morungs are very far from derelict, none of them has carvings, and none is at present used by boys as dormitories. I noticed that ..
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1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Chungtia visit to Khensa, Chungtia and Aliba graves at Chungtia tours Ao Chungtia 1947-02-11:1947-02-11 Archer W.G. 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 At Chungtia there is a long line of graves beside the village path. The graves of women are intermixed with those of men and all of them ..
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1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Chungtia visit to Khensa, Chungtia and Aliba gate at Chungtia tours Ao Chungtia 1947-02-11:1947-02-11 Archer W.G. 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Like Khensa, Chungtia has a huge gate hewn from a single tree. There are no carvings but lines based on the chang 'ostrich feather' pattern ..
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1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Aliba visit to Khensa, Chungtia and Aliba morung at Aliba tours Ao Aliba 1947-02-11:1947-02-11 Archer W.G. 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 (68) In Aliba the morung is very neat and smart though it was no longer used for sleeping purposes. Inside the hall are two huge pillars each carved..
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1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Khensa Chungtia Aliba visit to Khensa, Chungtia and Aliba log drums tours Ao Khensa Chungtia Aliba 1947-02-11:1947-02-11 Archer W.G. 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Khensa, Chungtia and Aliba all have magnificent log-drums and I have written a separate note about them. nagaarchphot..
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1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Cholimsen (Chongliyimsen) tours Cholimsen (Chongliyimsen) 1947-02-12:1947-02-12 Archer W.G. 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 February 12 To Chongliyimsen Next R65643 R65643 Previous R65641 R65641 tours Next Archer W.G. Previous 79 1947-02-12:1947-02-12 1947-02-12 February 12 To ..
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1946-12-31:1947-02-14 Lakhuni Charali problem with elephants tours Lakhuni Charali 1947-02-13:1947-02-14 Archer W.G. 1946-12-31:1947-02-14 February 13 To Lakhuni February 14 To Charali. At Lakhuni the gaonbura complained of wild elephants. 'Only three days ago there were four in the fields. Our ..
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1946-01-01:1948-12-31 12:22 Mokokchung Mongsenyimti Ao poetry gate, morung and log drum at Mongsenyimti village notes education customs christianity Mokokchung Mongsenyimti 1947-02-06:1947-02-07 Archer W.G. 1946-01-01:1948-12-31 12:22 6th February. Yesterday Mr [] the Headmaster of the Ao M.E. ..
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Tsotonoma khel 1946-01-01:1948-12-31 Kohima 12:41 notes Next dragging in a new village gate at Kohima Archer W.G. Previous 80 dragging in a new village gate at Kohima notes warriors Tsotonoma khel Kohima 1947-02-23:1947-02-23 Archer W.G. 1946-01-01:1948-12-31 12:41 nagaarchphotP48407.jpg naga..
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Tsotonoma khel 1946-01-01:1948-12-31 Kohima 12:42 notes Next carving a new village gate at Kohima Archer W.G. Previous 80 carving a new village gate at Kohima notes Tsotonoma khel Kohima 1947-02-25:1947-02-25 Archer W.G. 1946-01-01:1948-12-31 12:42 nagaarchphotP48422.jpg nagaarchphotP48423.jpg ..
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Puchatsuma khel 1946-01-01:1948-12-31 Kohima Zhakhama (Jakhama) 12:46 notes Next Puchatsuma khel visit Jakhama Archer W.G. Previous 80 Puchatsuma khel visit Jakhama notes warriors genna Puchatsuma khel Kohima Zhakhama (Jakhama) 1947-02-23:1947-02-23 Archer W.G. 1946-01-01:1948-12-31 12:46 Feb. 23. ..
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1946-01-01:1948-12-31 12:47 Kohima Sekrengi festival at Kohima notes warriors Kohima 1947-02-19:1947-02-19 Archer W.G. 1946-01-01:1948-12-31 12:47 Sekrengi festival. witnessed 1921947 On the third day in Kohima the young warriors and a few girls gather at a house in the early afternoon. All are at ..
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Mills J.P. Archer W.G. Adams 1946-01-01:1948-12-31 Wokha Lungsa Mokokchung Kohima Wakching Tirap F.T. 10:11 letters notes Next letters from Mills to Archer suggestion that Wakching area to be included in Tirap F.T. Archer W.G. Previous 80 letters from Mills to Archer suggestion that Wakching area ..
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letters from W.G. Archer to J.H. Hutton Naga art letters notes Sekrengi festival Archer W.G. Hutton J.H. Guosele of Chichema Pawsey Nieghuwa of Tesophenyu Angami Northern Rengma Lhota Ao Sema Khonoma Kigwema Jotsoma Zhakhama (Jokhama) Mezema (Mezoma) Chakhabama (Chakharbama) Cheswezumi (Cheswejumi)..
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Guidollo Bose Bardoloi Nehru Pawsey Archer W.G. 1946-01-01:1948-12-31 17:24 notes Next request from Rani Guidollo to rename the Manipur Road, 'Netaji High Way' Archer W.G. Previous 80 request from Rani Guidollo to rename the Manipur Road, 'Netaji High Way' notes Guidollo Bose Bardoloi Nehru Pawsey ..
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Kevichusa Mayang Nokcha 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 NNC meeting in Kohima, February 1947, agree to demand a ten year interim government diaries Kevichusa Mayang Nokcha 1947-07-18:1947-07-18 1947-02-01:1947-02-31 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 It was now that Angami dissatisfaction with the Wokha ..
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Mayang Nokcha 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 sub-committee in Delhi reject demand for an interim government; resignation of Mayang Nokcha diaries Mayang Nokcha 1947-07-18:1947-07-18 1947-02-01:1947-02-31 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 A few days later Mayang left for the sub-committee's meeting in ..
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Zavum S.M. Centre for South Asian Studies, Cambridge 1939-01-01:1946-12-31 notes Next comments of a working committee of the Kuki National Assembly on the pamphlet 'Cycle Migration of the Zemi Nagas' Graham Bower Ursula Previous Kuki 29 comments of a working committee of the Kuki National Assembly ..
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