The Nagas

Damant 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 walk to Mokokchung village headmen diaries Damant Ao 1947-07-12:1947-07-12 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 12 July. Chungtia. We are now over the first two mountain ranges and I am exploring more and more Ao villages. As we trudge up the hills, the village headmen,..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Chungtia visit to Chungtia walk to Mokokchung diaries Ao Chungtia 1947-07-12:1947-07-12 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 In the afternoon after the day's march is finished we go and visit a village. Today we went to Chungtia. As we approached along a shady footpath through..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Chungtia visit to Chungtia walk to Mokokchung womens' dress diaries Ao Chungtia 1947-07-12:1947-07-12 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Some of the Christian women had skirts and shapeless blouses, but the rest were naked above the waist and wore knee-length tightly swathed..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Chungtia visit to Chungtia walk to Mokokchung graves diaries Ao Chungtia 1947-07-12:1947-07-12 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 As we neared the village, we passed the grave-yard. The Aos erect a little thatched shed above the grave on which samples of the dead man's ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Chungtia visit to Chungtia walk to Mokokchung diaries Ao Chungtia 1947-07-12:1947-07-12 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 The headmen received us at the gate and conducted us along the street. Dogs barked, sows and piglets scattered left and right, women with babies at ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Chungtia visit to Chungtia walk to Mokokchung smoking diaries Ao Chungtia 1947-07-12:1947-07-12 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Up on the bamboo verandahs above our heads old women sat grinning with their toothless mouths and puffing away at their pipes. Smoking seems ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Chungtia visit to Chungtia walk to Mokokchung houses and house carvings diaries Ao Chungtia 1947-07-12:1947-07-12 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Like many Ao villages Chungtia is built on a steep hillside and, although the front doors are on a level with the ground, the ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Chungtia visit to Chungtia walk to Mokokchung morung and morung carvings diaries Ao Chungtia 1947-07-12:1947-07-12 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 In the middle of the village was the morung or bachelors' dormitory. It looked like the other houses but for privacy the ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Chungtia Aliba visit to Chungtia walk to Mokokchung log drums diaries Ao Chungtia Aliba 1947-07-12:1947-07-12 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 But the most exciting things in Chungtia and its neighbour, Aliba, are the log drums. They are carved and hollowed from an ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Chungtia visit to Chungtia walk to Mokokchung diaries Ao Chungtia 1947-07-12:1947-07-12 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 As we left the village the light faded. The Brahmaputra was still a line on the horizon, but now it had turned to bright pink. Then the sun sank, the ..
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