Wanchua Festival

Tiwa tribesmen celebrated the Wanchuwa festival in KarbiAnglong district of Assam.

About Wanchua Festival

  • This festival is celebrated to mark their good harvest.
  • It comes with songs, dances, a bunch of rituals and people clad in their native attires.
  • The people of Tiwa tribe associate the bountiful harvest with the higher power from nature. This takes the form of pigs' skulls and bones which act as deities and are preserved through many generations.
  • People do plenty of make up in the form of paste made of rice powder. They participate in dance with this make up.
  • With bamboo sticks in hand, the people proceed ....
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