Nearly six years after our last tour to Nagaland we visited this state in Northeast India again. At first sight not much had changed. There are still problems with electricity and running water, but - apart from a horrible section between Poilwa and Khonoma - the roads were generally better than last time. But there was something fundamentally new: In the old days the village´s chieftain, the Angh, built his house at the the highest point. Then the missionaries came and converted Nagaland into a state with more than 90% Christians. They demonstrated their power by building churches at an even higher point than the Angh´s house. Now there is something much higher than the churches. Everywhere you can see tall transmitter masts, because nowadays nearly every middle-aged and young Naga possesses a mobile phone that he and she extensively uses. Globalisation has reached at least the young Naga. They wear really trendy clothes and the young girls wear high-heeled shoes on rough roads. Many of them have moved to the towns for work and only come to their home villages for festivals.
But as everybody knows what globalised people look like, I have tried to capture a few of the traditional views and post them here. For some further information also have a look at my gallery "Nagaland, India, Home of Naga Headhunters" https://pbase.com/neuenhofer/nagaland_india_home_of_naga_headhunters
In this gallery the people are all Lower Konyak Naga.
There is a lot of further information in German about our tour in Nagaland on our homepage. Click http://www.neuenhofer.de/guenter/nagaland/nagareise2.html