Abstract
MR. HUTTON has quickly added to his monograph on the Angami Nagas a second describing the allied tribe, the Sema. The latter occupy the watershed dividing Assam from Burma, the plateau and the valleys of three rivers, the most important, the Dayang, eventually flowing into the Brahmaputra and so into the Ganges, the other two mingling their waters with the Lania, and reaching the sea by way of the Ti-Ho, the Chindwin, and the Irawadi. The Sema Nagas are a mixed race, the result of emigration from at least three directions: from the north-west, whence came the Singpos, Kacharis, and Garos; from the south the Angamis; while a migration from south northwards on the part of the Thado Kukis and Lusheis has scarcely ceased even now.
The Sema Nagas.
By J. H. Hutton. Published by the direction of the Assam Government. Pp. xviii + 463. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1921.) 40s. net.
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The Sema Nagas . Nature 109, 769–770 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109769b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/109769b0
