Naga style wrestling

Source: http://www.youtube.com/user/HornbillFestival

 

Discovery Channel's Tattoo Hunter- Wancho tribe, Nagaland, India (Part4 & 5 of 5)

Missed Part 1,2,3?  Watch it here (Part 1-3).

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Discovery Channel's Tattoo Hunter- Wancho tribe, Nagaland, India (Part 1-3 of 5)

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Watch Part 4 & 5 here.

HereDeixis - In linguistics, deixis refers to the phenomenon wherein understanding the meaning of certain words and phrases in an utterance requires contextual information. ?

Naga traditional instruments

Source: http://www.youtube.com/user/HiDawnMedia

The art of battle | Battle of Kohima-Imphal (1944)

Hello viewers, here is a chance to learn about the Kohima War. This video by “The art of battle” describe every strategic detail about the “Battle of Kohima”. This animation covers the Battle of Kohima-Imphal, March 8-July 8, 1944.

Annotations in the video: Red = British Fourteenth Army, Blue = Japanese Fifteenth Army

Animated by Jonathan Webb and narrated by Tom Fitzmaurice



Video Source: http://youtu.be/k1c4G0cyV2w

Courtesy: The art of battle

For more great battles visit www.TheArtofBattle.com.

An interview with a Konyak elder

A traveler interviews a Konyak elder about his headhunting days, face tattooing, smoking opium, about the coming of Christianity and how life changed in Nagaland over the last 100 years. Watch this old man talk with vivid details of the begone days...

An interview with a Konyak: Part 1



Source: http://www.youtube.com/user/wokling

About the video from the YouTube Video Description:
"Phejin interviews her Grandfather about headhunting, face tattooing, smoking opium, the coming of Christianity and how life has changed in Nagaland over the last 100 years."

Visit the traveler's website: www.wokling.com

An interview with a Konyak: Part 2




An interview with a Konyak: Part 3

Video Volunteers -Weavers Need A Helping Hand by Renchano Humtsoe

Source: Video Volunteers
YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/VideoVolunteers

An excerpt from the YouTube Video description:
"The weaving tradition of Lotha Naga tribals is becoming rare as young generation stays away from it. In Wokha district of Nagaland where Lotha tribals like our correspondent Renchano lives, most of the young men and women are unaware of the great value attached to their hand-woven clothes. The craft is now practiced only by a few women of the older generation and the fall out of this is, young Nagas are getting alienated from their history and traditions. For a Naga tribe, any hand-woven cloth is much more than just a piece of warm clothing. It is an indicator of his community and his social standing. So every Naga tribe has it's own distinct designs. Each of these design has multiple patterns and together they are supposed to reflect the wearer's complete identity -- which tribe he belongs to, the group of villages he came from, his social status and the number of ritual feasts he had performed. The clothes, especially the shawl woven by the Lotha tribe has several patterns which indicate the number of social feasts given by the wearer. Interestingly all the designs are woven only by women. But unlike before now young Naga women often travel to other states either for higher education or jobs which keep them away from home. As a result, they don't get to learn weaving which is so crucial for their tribe. Renchano, a Lotha Naga tribal herself, doesn't know how to weave as she spent several years out of Wokha. She points this out as a reason why the tradition of weaving slowly vanishing. And as production of shawls and other woven materials decrease, imitations of Naga shawls are now being produced by machines in Delhi, Chennai, Patna or wherever and being sold at a little over Rs 100, when an original shawl of the same design should fetch nothing less than Rs 1,000-1,500 in the Nagaland government shops. Renchano says, it's important that the tribals themselves value their tradition, instead of blaming others for creating replicas of their hand-woven crafts. As we see in her video, Renchano herself became more aware of the value of weaving while producing this video. She has now decided to learn the art of weaving and practice it in future. She wants others young members of the community also take pride in their craft and help preserve it."

A Day in the Life of a Naga Woman

This video portrays how Naga women used to do their daily woman chores in the household.

Courtesy: http://www.youtube.com/user/womenaloudindia
YouTube Video description: "In this video, we see how tribal women cook in hollow bamboo and banana leaves, and condition their hair with ground tree beans.
Produced by Wangshikokla Jamir (Nagaland) for the Culture theme month for Women Aloud Videoblogging for Empowerment (WAVE). Distributed by Tubemogul."

The Men Who Hunted Heads

Courtesy:http://www.youtube.com/user/ayabaya

About the publisher: Alan Macfarlane, Professor of Anthropology, UK.
Website: http://www.alanmacfarlane.com

Excerpt from the YouTube Description :

"Filmed by Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf in 1970. Broadcast by the BBC in the 1970's and based on fieldwork carried out in Nagaland and Arunchal Pradesh. The film is part of a large archive of footage shot by Haimendorf in the Himalayas. It is put up with his permission. Other material will be put up in due course on www.alanmacfarlane.com (under 'Films'); see also www.digitalhimalaya.com"