The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database
  1. typescript 'Journey to Nagaland', by Mildred Archer. An account of six months spent in the Naga Hills in 1947
    1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Yekhum Sanis visit to Yekhum and Sanis trip to Kohima diaries Lhota Yekhum Sanis 1947-08-14:1947-08-14 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 14 August. Sanis. Yesterday and today, a march to Yekhum and Sanis. In these Lhota villages the houses are small and mean, dark and ..
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  2. typescript 'Journey to Nagaland', by Mildred Archer. An account of six months spent in the Naga Hills in 1947
    1947-07-09:1947-12-04 visit to Yekhum and Sanis trip to Kohima women's dress diaries Lhota 1947-08-14:1947-08-14 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 The Lhotas, especially the women, seem drabber and far uglier than the Aos. All the Lhota women I have so far seen are dressed in grubby blouses with..
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  3. typescript 'Journey to Nagaland', by Mildred Archer. An account of six months spent in the Naga Hills in 1947
    Mungkhau of Sanis 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Sanis visit to Yekhum and Sanis trip to Kohima Mungkhau of Sanis and polygamy diaries Mungkhau of Sanis Lhota Sanis 1947-08-14:1947-08-14 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 But some of the men were big and burly and there was one outstanding man at Sanis, ..
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  4. typescript 'Journey to Nagaland', by Mildred Archer. An account of six months spent in the Naga Hills in 1947
    1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Yekhum Sanis visit to Yekhum and Sanis trip to Kohima morungs diaries Lhota Yekhum Sanis 1947-08-14:1947-08-14 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 At both Yekhum and Sanis the morungs were falling into disrepair and only the posts carved with hornbills and a few wisps of ..
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  5. typescript 'Journey to Nagaland', by Mildred Archer. An account of six months spent in the Naga Hills in 1947
    1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Yekhum visit to Yekhum and Sanis trip to Kohima child-birth ritual diaries Lhota Yekhum 1947-08-14:1947-08-14 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 There was a michem tree just outside Yekhum, where after a child is born, the midwife takes the after-birth, wrapped up in bits of..
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  6. typescript 'Journey to Nagaland', by Mildred Archer. An account of six months spent in the Naga Hills in 1947
    1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Yekhum Sanis visit to Yekhum and Sanis trip to Kohima head-tree diaries Lhota Yekhum Sanis 1947-08-14:1947-08-14 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 At one end of the village was a large head-tree, but there were no bamboos with heads leaning in it now - only a luck-stone lay..
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  7. typescript 'Journey to Nagaland', by Mildred Archer. An account of six months spent in the Naga Hills in 1947
    1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Sanis visit to Yekhum and Sanis trip to Kohima headman's grave diaries Lhota Sanis 1947-08-14:1947-08-14 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Today we saw the grave of a headman who had just died. He was buried outside the door of his house and his grave is covered with ..
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  8. typescript 'Journey to Nagaland', by Mildred Archer. An account of six months spent in the Naga Hills in 1947
    1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Sanis visit to Yekhum and Sanis trip to Kohima memorials to head-takers and tiger killers diaries Lhota Sanis 1947-08-14:1947-08-14 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Outside the village we saw a number of criss-cross bamboos. If a man has participated in a head-taking ..
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