From USA to Nagaland village on a mission//She is shocked & awestruck!

追加: 2026-05-05

[00:00:12]My name is Maeve. I come from the United States. I live in Chicago.

[00:00:18]Um and right now I'm working on a research project with the Ministry of Textiles and India with the Indian government and Heart to Heart Trust's interim program to document the Naga individual dying traditions. He invited me to come out and visit and explore more of the culture. So, we've been doing all sorts of things outside of just the dying process including yesterday we saw the sewing of the seeds in the fields and the workmen song and jubilation and I'm going to be here for the next 3 weeks just understanding the total uh cultural context behind the use traditions not just um dying to textiles alone but textiles is my uh expertise and specialty. I guess you are having a good time here. It's really wonderful. It's a really special place.

[00:01:06]Everyone is so warm and kind and I've needed to just connect with nature and reconnect with the land and everything here is so delicious. So, I'm very grateful to be here. It's really different from America. I can definitely tell you that. It's really really different but it's a special place. All right. On behalf of all the Naga people, thank you for coming to Nagaland and even to the you know interior villages. I hope you you have a successful mission. We'll be uh uploading more videos if possible.

[00:01:33]So, you do keep on watching. Toku na.

[00:01:36]So, good morning ladies and gentlemen.

[00:01:37]Maeve is uh going to interact with the school kids of primary students from Pheru Village. Um my plan is just to talk to them about how cultural preservation in a way and the reason why I came all the way across the world to understand something about their way of living which is um slowly becoming uh rarer and rarer thing across the world. So, I think when you're immersed in it you don't realize the beauty of it yourself. Um so, sometimes having someone come from a different place allows you to see how special what you're doing is and the way you're living is. So, just sharing some of that excitement towards them so they know how special and cool that where they come from is.

[00:02:19]Uh so, I think they will be meeting uh a white guy people from the West I think for the first time because most of the kids they haven't been outside Mokokchung District. Are you ready? Yep. Let's do it. Let's go. Telo.

[00:02:32]Can I take a picture? Yes.

[00:02:38]Very good.

[00:02:44]No.

[00:02:46]Mhm.

[00:02:47]Nice to meet you.

[00:02:49]My name is Maeve and I come from all the way on the other side of the globe in the United States of America. I live and I came to this part of India because I study art. Things like paintings and Mhm.

[00:03:13]Again, ask their names and then like what they where they live. What about you? What's your name?

[00:03:20]My name is It's a practice.

[00:03:30]It's what? Sonomimi.

[00:03:33]What's your name?

[00:03:34]My name is Puture.

[00:03:36]Wow.

[00:03:37]You all have such unique names.

[00:03:41]My name My name is Are you best friends?

[00:03:52]We learn faster.

[00:03:54]What's the way these guys are really really naughty.

[00:04:15]>> [laughter] >> Hindi?

[00:04:26]Mhm.

[00:04:33]Hi. Hi.

[00:04:43]I think I'm the first one to give it a name.

[00:04:55]Mhm.

[00:05:11]Like permanently there. Okay.

[00:05:13]But they have their names and you know whenever needed they the Sunday here we will be touring there some of their places.

[00:05:22]Thank you.

[00:05:43]I think you should start the little sour chap we call it.

[00:05:56]He wants to make fun of me because I don't know how to do this.

[00:06:00]>> [laughter] >> I don't think so. I think I'm doing a fine job. Mhm. See? Yeah.

[00:06:05]I think we should bring You guys I'm doing great. Yeah.

[00:06:12]I'm doing great.

[00:06:14]He likes my pedicure. Mhm.

[00:06:17]Mhm.

[00:06:19]Mhm.

[00:06:30]Love taste this one first.

[00:06:32]You take so so less rice. I think you should eat that more.

[00:06:38]This? Yeah. I I give present for you.

[00:06:40]It's uh Mekhela.

[00:07:37]We're twins. Mhm. Twins now.

[00:07:46]Mhm.

[00:07:47]If you go to the fellowship this way they'll be very happy to see you you're here.

[00:07:53]Start Naga.

[00:07:55]Let's go across. Toku na.

[00:07:59]Oh. Toku na.

[00:08:05]Any problem walking so far?

[00:08:07]Munsungka.

[00:08:11]>> [laughter] >> Toku na.

[00:08:20]Velo.

[00:08:21]Velo. Velo.

[00:08:24]Toku na. Velo. Velo. Velo.

[00:08:27]It's like cello.

[00:08:28]Oh. But velo.

[00:08:30]Any problem so far? No problem.

[00:08:33]Mhm. How do you How do you spell mhm?

[00:08:37]M is m m.

[00:08:39]How do you say it's fine?

[00:08:40]It's fine. Ingan so.

[00:08:43]Ingan so.

[00:08:45]Delicious pig.

[00:08:49]Yeah.

[00:08:51]The pig rice husk leaves uh the left over from the kitchen.

[00:09:01]You know.

[00:09:01]>> Oh, that's good.

[00:09:07]So, you visited Chumbo So, Chumbo means previous Morung site for this colony. We think that they should do better cultural preservation and that's our campaign because they don't need to modernize. That's not the beauty of this place. The beauty is what has been happening here for the past hundreds of thousands of years.

[00:09:29]So, they don't need to take down the Morungs or the old buildings and make all these new structures because the cities will modernize for them.

[00:09:38]You know, if you want to have new industrialization and you want to develop there's nothing wrong with that but it's all about a balance of keeping what's so rich about a place and keeping your identity. So, we're on a little campaign uh to help preserve that identity.

[00:09:57]That's why we want to talk in some of the schools here. Maybe we'll talk at the church.

[00:10:02]But we'll also definitely do some videos and just encourage the local people to embrace what is so special about what happens here on a daily basis, especially within the craft sector and within architecture and within like garments and clothing, you know.

[00:10:22]We don't want to limit people from developing and having access to information, but uh we also want to make sure that what is unique about a place that no other place has um doesn't get extinguished because there's a monoculture that's developing that is everyone is modernizing everything's becoming minimalistic.

[00:10:47]We're rebels against the monoculture.

[00:10:50]Oh, we're here for a mission. Yeah. Keep on watching.

[00:10:53]Spider?

[00:10:54]I both love oops. What?

[00:10:58]Huh?

[00:11:00]In the land of last, so this tree is the place where we hung the trophy. So the trophy means the human skull, right?

[00:11:07]So you doing head hunting season, you go to those villages travel with the human head and hang those things here.

[00:11:16]Wow.

[00:11:17]Yeah.

[00:11:17]And this monolith is to show your power, your wealth. So in order to build this one, you need 50-60 people. Because these are brought from far away places and there was no vehicle or machine, right? Mhm. So if you want to show that you are wealthy, then you build this one. We call it longzhu and then it will take the whole day.

[00:11:37]And you know, our villages are mostly at the top of the hill. So building up it's it's a very >> It's very difficult. difficult. So it requires a lot of effort.

[00:11:46]These things are also I don't know what is magical stone or what do you call this one, but it has some they have some belief that it brings some maybe wealth protection.

[00:12:03]Right now it's the season of the fruit and uh fruit is something like this.

[00:12:13]I don't know what it is. It Are they berry or are they just hanging?

[00:12:20]I know they they will just hang the skull only.

[00:12:24]Not a body.

[00:12:25]Cuz I don't I wonder why it grew like this. Like why is it growing?

[00:12:29]What are you saying?

[00:12:32]So you are saying you haven't seen something like this tree in your life?

[00:12:36]I've never seen anything like it. I love banyan trees and I've seen banyan trees all over Hawaii. I just the biggest tree in America is a banyan in Lahaina in Hawaii. And everywhere I go in India or in Southeast Asia, I try to look for banyan trees cuz I find them to be so special and magical and I even grew up with a fig tree in my backyard. So I know figs well, but this we can't figure out exactly what type of tree it is cuz it is dropping fruit. It's just bursting with fruit all over. It looks like a fig tree.

[00:13:12]Has vines in it, warps and it defies gravity and it wraps around each other with these long snaking tendrils that knob also like nothing I've seen before, so even between living in the Amazon rainforest and traveling all through the national parks in the United States and visiting jungles all over the world, I've really never seen a tree like this in my life. It's so incredible force that has to it.

[00:13:42]So this is the third generation tree, okay? Mhm. Yeah.

[00:13:45]So our village is around 800 to 1,000 years old.

[00:13:49]That's what uh There is no exact carbon dating done, so we just put it So for 900 years there's been this tree evolving and growing.

[00:14:01]>> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> So my guest is interacting with the women in Lotha dialect.

[00:14:35]She understands a little bit now.

[00:14:41]>> [laughter] >> The reason I don't know again uh about weaving, [clears throat] dyeing and all traditional kind of thing.

[00:14:51]There's a meeting going on because she is here.

[00:15:23]>> [snorts] >> Think about how it used to be. Reason why Hornbill exists is to carry on what's so potent and informative about these traditions and that's why it's important to understand your stories as they're living because you are on the precipice of a changing era.

[00:15:52]You are keepers of knowledge that the next generation doesn't have any more to gap. Mhm. Working with the Indian Ministry of Textiles Mhm. and through that I met an organization called Antaran and they specifically requested that I find the stewards of knowledge about the Indian Just spin this.

[00:16:16]Yeah.

[00:16:20]First you have to remove the seed.

[00:16:23]So you need a stick and a stone to chase the knock out the seeds.

[00:16:29]And then the thing if After after the seed is being removed you know bow?

[00:16:37]They they have a bow like this.

[00:16:40]So in a bow they shoot the cotton.

[00:16:43]They shoot it? Yeah, shreds into shreds, yeah.

[00:16:46]Like string like a guitar.

[00:16:50]They pluck it. They pluck the cotton.

[00:16:54]See? If you like the really tight string, right? Like a bow. And then they hold the cotton like this, you know, do it. It explodes, right? And then it shreds into not shreds, but uh The balls of cotton, they shoot it? Can I see that process or not? No, they don't have they can't be done right now.

[00:17:12]The old Right. So we are going to to my aunt's place for dinner and it is Doshi Yanko or in Nagaland villages is divided into many colonies. We usually call it khel.

[00:17:30]Something like this everywhere. In fact, we invest a lot on the welcome gate rather than on the roads.

[00:17:38]Yeah, I noticed that.

[00:17:40]There's so many beautiful entrance gates to all of the villages that we passed by. Some are wooden, others are woven, others are bamboo.

[00:17:50]But they can get pretty elaborate.

[00:17:52]They're pretty cool to see.

[00:17:54]It does make me feel welcome. I'm like, "Oh, this is a cool new area, cool new district." That is the That is the That is the sign of hospitality in Nagaland.

[00:18:05]We don't have proper roads, but we have proper Meanwhile we're off-roading, skidding through the dirt on our way past them.

[00:18:11]Yeah, but potholes.

[00:18:13]>> But that's the fun of it. And for you for some things fun, but for us it's everyday.

[00:18:17]It's not fun. We had to push the car physically with like a team of people through What's that one town?

[00:18:26]Why? Why am I Why?

[00:18:29]Begins with a W.

[00:18:31]BMW? Oh, Wokha? Wokha, yeah. We were pushing the car through Wokha.

[00:18:36]Once I pushed it by myself, which I was really proud of.

[00:18:40]I think I could do it cuz it was going down a hill anyways.

[00:18:43]Um Yeah, you know things like that.

[00:18:47]Uh oh.

[00:18:49]That's my aunt.

[00:18:54]Yeah.

[00:18:55]We're going to have dinner with her.

[00:18:59]Come with us for dinner.

[00:19:06]How do you say "Welcome"?

[00:19:08]>> Monana vanana.

[00:19:13]Uh can you say it again?

[00:19:14]>> [laughter] >> Monana vanana.

[00:19:21]Uh >> [laughter] >> Huh?

[00:19:26]Okay, she said to sit.

[00:19:29]No one understands me.

[00:19:32]I'm about to have dinner.

[00:19:39]Mhm.

[00:19:42]Sour.

[00:19:51]Mhm. One time did Good.

[00:20:00]More than a month.

[00:20:04]Uh exchange Raspberry, strawberry.

[00:20:12]Mhm. Smells nice.

[00:20:15]Mhm. Can I try that?

[00:20:20]Ah, no.

[00:20:21]Pardon? Do you suck on it or do you chew it?

[00:20:24]First just chew.

[00:20:29]But, let it keep inside your mouth for a while so that it become a little bit soft.

[00:20:34]And then you can chew. It will be too hard. It will not might damage your teeth.

[00:20:40]Yeah.

[00:20:42]And the state is alone. Last dinner?

[00:20:44]Yeah. That's a city.

[00:20:46]The state is alone. Oh.

[00:20:49]It's a city. It's in the middle of New York and LA. It's in the center.

[00:20:53]It's the third biggest city.

[00:21:05]Hey guys.

[00:21:07]So, we went to some of the villagers house.

[00:21:12]Random people, mostly elders.

[00:21:14]And directed to them and They're so sweet. They were teaching me about in old times before there was looking glasses in Nagaland, they made their own mirrors out of a gourd by pouring water into it and looking into it, which is crazy. It's like thinking of just like pouring water into a vegetable and that's that's a mirror.

[00:21:34]That was shocking to me. Yeah.

[00:21:37]Very, very busy girl.

[00:21:40]Uh all the way from Chicago, Nagaland.

[00:21:44]Came here to experience how we wash the dishes.

[00:21:51]Do you use the old school method? Yeah, old school method. Is the water you boiling? Mhm, from the oven. The fire.

[00:21:59]So, >> [clears throat] >> everything is natural and old school here.

[00:22:04]No touch screen.

[00:22:06]Except for the one you're holding. Mhm, this is I have no other option.

[00:22:11]All right, good job.