Assam in 1928

Ethnographic feature film following two headhunters of the Naga tribes in north-eastern India. Part ethnographic film, part narrative feature, Nyimsao and Kheseto follows two men of the Naga people, living in a village in the hills above Assam in the far north-east of India. With origins in Yunnan (China) and Burma, the Naga tribes had their own dialect, and customs included headhunting - filmmaker Charles Suydam Cutting had joined a party sent by the local British district commissioner to stamp out this practice. Headhunting was finally banned in the region in 1991.