Abstract
AT a meeting of the Royal Anthropological Institute held on March 4, Dr. W. H. R. Rivers, president, in the chair, Mr. J. P. Mills, of the Indian Civil Service, read a paper on the Lhota Nagas of Assam. He said that in spite of its long contact with the plains of Assam, this tribe has retained its primitive dress and customs. It occupies a portion of the Naga Hills lying to the S.E. of the Brahmaputra Valley, and numbers some 18,000 souls. Like the Angamis, the Lhotas trace their origin to a mythical hole in the earth near the Kezakenoma stone. In dress they resemble closely their neighbours, the Acs, the men wearing a small apron and body cloths of various patterns, and the women a small skirt of very dark blue, with a light blue median band. Warriors in full dress wear human hair tails, elaborate baldricks with fringes of goat's hair dyed scarlet, and bear's hair wigs ornamented with hornbill feathers.
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The Lhota Nagas. Nature 109, 393–394 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109393b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/109393b0