Note 9 — INTRODUCTION

The Lushei, Thado and other Kuki tribes are perhaps themselves another branch of the northern immigration,9 but if so they must have turned north again, for they drove up from the south in front of them both the old Kukis—possibly non-Kuki tribes10 already subjected to Kuki influence—and that very different race which became the predominating factor in the Angami Naga tribe, and which has probably entered to a lesser degree into the composition of a number of its neighbours. The Angamis or the ancestors of a section of what is now the Angami tribe were undoubtedly located far to the south of the present Naga Hills.