Unying Aran Festival

The Adis have unique socio-cultural entity among other tribes of the state.  Trapping and hunting is a part of their culture and they use different indigenous traps and methods for hunting animals, rodents during Aran festival. For this, all male members go on a hunting spree and stay in jungles for a week. The Aran festival is celebrated during March of every year and rodent trapping is the main activity of the festival. It helps in controlling the rodents before growing the main crop of rice, side by side they have got ethnical importance being the exchangeable gift item during the engagement of bride and groom. The rodent meat is used during the worship of various benevolent god, goddess, deities and spirits for the well being of human kind.