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....
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.
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Activities
- Return of all male members from the jungle.
- Checking out bounties of their hunt.
- Distributing and receiving gifts (the hunt) from friends and family.
- Lunch together.
- Ponung dance etc
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Tourism
Leena Perme, District Tourism Officer.
DC office
How to reach
The nearest airport is Pasighat airport,
which is 2 KMs away.
The nearest convenient railway station is Murkong selek,
which is 34 KMs away.
The nearest major city is Pasighat,
which is KMs away.