Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Diaries of Two Tours in the Unadministered Area East of the Naga Hills

Members of the Asiatic Society of Bengal receive the current numbers of the - Memoirs gratis by virtue of their membership and if ordering back issues directly from the Society have a right to a discount of 25 %. Revised prices of loose numbers of the " Memoirs." All previous prices as printed on the issues of back numbers of the '' Memoirs" of the Asiatic Society of Bengal were cancelled in 1 [...] Similarly the Thado Kukis always bury their hunting dogs with four corner-posts (vakot) to the grave like men.' The Italians crowned them.2 At the neighbouring village of Nyan I noticed a rain hat in use made like an oval shield with a headpiece in the centre of the underside as in the case of a `mortar-board.' The type I am accustomed to in this part of the hills is the circular hat inside wh [...] ing of the village paths is here as it is with the Angamis associated with the cleaning of the graves of the village dead.' Both the Angamis and the Semas I I Man August I22 IOC. [...] The seat of the Angatni soul is in the forehead.' To keep oft evil spirits the young who are more susceptible to such harm than the adult lick and stick on to the centre of the forehead a bit of the leaf of some aromatic plant usually wormwood a spiritual disinfectant of great efficacy which gives the exact effect of a caste mark. [...] In front of the houses rows of forked posts form a low wall to the porch front and the gables carry house-horns.'' The forked posts at any rate were probably significant of the performance of some such ceremony as the Lisii of the Angamis.3 A buffalo head carved in one of the Yungphong morungs was of a rather new type and confirmed the derivation given for the tattoo on the upper arm noted at