HORNBIILL FESTIVAL

10th February, 2022

HORNBIILL FESTIVAL

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About the Festival

  • It is also called the 'Festival of Festivals'.
  • Organized every year in the first week of December.
  • It hosts a colorful mixture of dances, performances, crafts, parades, games, sports, food, fairs and religious ceremonies.

 

Importance

  • It highlights the tradition of tribal people and boosts the state’s tourism potential.
  • It reinforces Nagaland’s identity as a unique state in India’s federal union.
  • It fosters understanding of Nagaland’s resourceful architecture and its ethnic cuisine.

Great Hornbill

  • IUCN Red List Status- Vulnerable
  • Found in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.
  • State bird of Kerala and Arunachal Pradesh.
  • Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972

Do you know?

Hornbills were once hunted for their beaks. They were used to make the traditional headgears by the Nyishi tribe men. (To symbolize manhood and valor) Hornbills were also hunted for their oil (believed to relieve pain) and for their meat. However, a new conservation movement is in motion to save the fast disappearing hornbills of northeast India. The tribes – who once hunted the exotic birds in large numbers – are now protecting their nests to help their numbers rebound.

Festivals of Northeast

Losar

Arunachal Pradesh

Saga Dawa

Sikkim

Ambubachi Mela

Assam

Dree Festival

Arunachal Pradesh

Moatsu Mong

Nagaland

Rass Mahutsav

Assam

Cheiraoba

Manipur

Aoling festival

Nagaland

Shillong Autumn Festival

Meghalaya

Lui-ngai-ni

Manipur

Sanken Festival

Arunachal Pradesh

Bihu Festival

Assam

Losoong

Sikkim

Nongkrem Dance Festival

Meghalaya

Anthurium

Mizoram

Kharchi Puja

Tripura

Chapchar Kut

Mizoram

Wangala Festival

Meghalaya

Ziro Festival of Music

Arunachal Pradesh

Kang Chingba

Manipur

Myoko Festival

Arunachal Pradesh

Judima Festival

Assam

Yaoshang

Manipur

Torgya Festival

Arunachal Pradesh

Dehing Patkai Festival

Assam

Majuli Festival

Assam

Behdienkhlam

Meghalaya

Junbeel Mela

Assam

 

Major Naga Tribes

Tribe

Country

Recognized as Scheduled Tribe in

Angami

India

Nagaland

Anāl

India, Myanmar

Manipur

Ao

India

Nagaland

Chakhesang

India

Nagaland

Chang

India

Nagaland

Chirr

India

Nagaland

Chiru

India

Manipur

Chothe

India

Manipur

Inpui

India

Manipur

Kharam (also Purum)

India

Manipur

Khiamniungan (or Khiamnungam)

Myanmar, India

Nagaland

Konyak

Myanmar, India

Nagaland

Lamkang

India

Manipur

Lainong

Myanmar

Liangmai

India

Nagaland, Manipur

Lotha

India

Nagaland

Makury (sometimes spelt Makuri)

Myanmar, India

Mao (also Ememei)

India

Manipur

Maram

India

Manipur

Maring

India

Manipur

Monsang

India

Manipur

Moyon

Myanmar, India

Manipur

Nocte (or Nokte)

India

Arunachal Pradesh

Para

Myanmar

Phom

India

Nagaland

Pochury

India

Nagaland

Poumai

India

Manipur

Rengma

India

Assam, Nagaland

Rongmei

India

Assam, Manipur and Nagaland

Sangtam

India

Nagaland

Sumi (or Sema)

India

Nagaland

Tangkhul

India, Myanmar

Manipur

Tangsa (or Tase in language coding name)

India, Myanmar

Arunachal Pradesh

Tarao

India

Manipur

Thangal

India

Manipur

Tikhir

India

Nagaland

Tutsa

India

Arunachal Pradesh

Wancho

India

Arunachal Pradesh

Yimchunger

Myanmar, India

Nagaland

Zeme

India

Nagaland, Assam & Manipur