Category: Archaeology & Anthropology
The Village—The “Morung”—The Head-Tree—The House—The Contents—Manufactures—Trade—Loans—Agriculture and the Ceremonies connected with it—Live-stock—Hunting—Fishing —Food—Drink—Medicine—Drugs—Games—Music—Daily Life.
The Village—The “Morung”—The Head-Tree—The House—The Contents—Manufactures—Trade—Loans—Agriculture and the Ceremonies connected with it—Live-stock—Hunting—Fishing —Food—Drink—Me...
3. PART III4. PART IV5. PART VIIAN ELDERLY MAN OF LUNGITANG WEARING LUNGPENSÜ AND BIG EAR-PADS 7 YOUNG MARRIED WOMAN (OF OKOTSO) 7 ORNAMENTATION OF MEDIAN BAND OF RÜKHUSÜ 10 SOUTHERN LHOTAS IN FULL DRESS 13 CH...
6. PART IThe Lhota Nagas are a tribe numbering some twenty thousand souls which occupies a piece of territory that may be roughly described as the drainage area of the Middle and Lower D...
7. PART II[Position and defences.] With the exception of those situated on spurs running down from the great mass of Wokha Hill, a Lhota village is invariably built on the very top of a r...
8. ill. With this in mind a woman in Yemkha in 1919 left a piece of dross[Basket-work.] Living in a land where cane and bamboo are plentiful Lhotas are naturally expert basket-makers. Every man can make his own household baskets, but the manufacture...
9. PART IIIThe Lhota tribe may fairly be said to have an exogamous system which is in the process of breaking down. There are three phratries divided into clans (chibo) which are in some c...
10. PART IVThe religion of the Lhota is of that type which is vaguely termed Animism. He believes in no Supreme Being who rewards the good and punishes the evil. The deities to whom he sac...
11. PART V[Folk-tales.] Like all Nagas [189] the Lhotas possess a great store of traditional tales. The old men tell them and teach them to the younger generation, having themselves learn...
12. PART VISir George Grierson, in his Linguistic Survey of India, places [222] the Lhota language in the central sub-group of Naga languages, together with Ao, Tangsa, [223] Thukumi [224]...
13. PART VIINdri (February). “The month of the ndri flower.” Emhu (March). “The blowing month.” Ephi (April). “The dry month.” Cheshi (May). “The watching month,” i.e. all watch to see if t...
14. Part V.).—J. H. H.[190] This and all other stories given are literal translations from the Lhota. My method has been to have the stories dictated and written down in Lhota, and then tested for ve...