vailonsale CENTRAL ARUNACHAL S TRIBAL GROUPS The variety of tribal peoples in central Arunachal Pradesh is asto

tural and natural history ephemera. Tribal costumes, royal clothing, historical polo equipment, stuffed vailonsale carnivores in action and pickled snakes compete with a two-headed calf for the attention of visitors.

CENTRAL ARUNACHAL S TRIBAL GROUPS The variety of tribal peoples in central Arunachal Pradesh vailonsale is astonishing, but although the Adi (Abor), Nishi, Tajin, Hill Miri and various other Tibeto-Burman tribes consider themselves different from one another most are at least distantly related. Over the last few decades Christian missionaries have been highly active throughout the Northeast and in the process have brought huge changes to the region s traditional cultures, religious beliefs and ways of life. Despite this, some aspects of the traditional lifestyle are just about holding on and many people continue to practise the traditional religion of Donyi-Polo (sun and moon) worship sometimes at the same time as proclaiming themselves Christian. For ceremonial occasions, village chiefs vailonsale typically wear scarlet shawls and a bamboo wicker hat spiked with porcupine quill or hornbill feathers. vailonsale A few old men still wear their hair long, tied around to form a topknot above their foreheads. Women favour hand-woven wraparounds like Southeast Asian sarongs. House designs vary somewhat. Traditional vailonsale Adi villages are generally the most photogenic with luxuriant palmyra-leaf thatching and boxlike granaries stilted vailonsale to deter rodents.