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

From a distance Aizawl (pronounced eyezole) seems a painted backdrop to an Italian opera, such is the steepness of the ridge on which it s perched. Backs of homes at road level might be held there with stilts three times higher river run saco than their roofs.

CENTRAL ARUNACHAL S TRIBAL GROUPS The variety of tribal peoples in central Arunachal Pradesh is astonishing, but although the Adi (Abor), river run saco 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 river run saco of Donyi-Polo (sun and moon) worship sometimes at the same time as proclaiming river run saco themselves Christian. river run saco For ceremonial occasions, village chiefs typically wear scarlet shawls and a bamboo wicker hat spiked river run saco with porcupine quill or hornbill feathers. river run saco A few old men still wear their hair long, tied around river run saco to form a topknot above their foreheads. Women favour hand-woven wraparounds like Southeast Asian sarongs. river run saco House designs vary somewhat. river run saco Traditional Adi villages are generally the most photogenic with luxuriant palmyra-leaf thatching and boxlike granaries stilted to deter rodents.