Nagaland Hornbill Festival
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Posted On - 2011-12-13
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The Nagaland Hornbill Festival, celebrated every year since 2000 in the first week of December, reverberates with color and pageantry. The festival is a mélange of Naga cultural displays on the same stage. Organized by the Nagaland State Directorate of Tourism in Kohima, the festival intends to revive, protect and preserve the rich and unique Naga heritage and attract tourists to the state. The hornbill, a bird admired by the Naga people, is the leitmotif of this festival. Hornbills, now threatened in the wild due to deforestation, are linked closely with the social and cultural mores of the Naga people, evident in tribal folklore, dance and song. The bird is symbolically displayed in traditional tribal headgear. Photographer Caisii Mao captures the mood at the Naga Heritage Village of Kisama, 15 km away from Kohima, the capital of Nagaland.
Naga tribesmen from Yimchunger perform a folk dance on the first day of the state annual Hornbill Festival at the Naga heritage village of Kisama, some 15 km from Kohima, the capital of India’s northeastern state of Nagaland, on December 2, 2011. The week-long Hornbill Festival of Nagaland, which celebrates the cultural heritage of the Naga people, runs annually from December 1-7. Photo by Caisii Mao
Naga tribesmen from the Phocury tribe clad in traditional attire perform folk songs on the first day of the annual Hornbill Festival. Photo by Caisii Mao
Naga tribesmen of the Yimchunger tribe gesture as they rest before their Morung on the first day of the state annual Hornbill Festival at the Naga heritage village of Kisama, 15 km from Kohima, the state capital.
Naga tribesmen from Yimchunger tribe clad in traditional attire look on as they wait to perform on the first day of the state annual Hornbill Festival.
A Naga tribesman from the Konyak tribe eats a stump of smoldering firewood during the second day of the state's annual Hornbill Festival.
A foreign tourist cheers Naga performers at the Naga Heritage Village of Kisama. The week-long Hornbill Festival of Nagaland celebrates the cultural heritage of the state's tribes.
A Naga tribesman from Khaimniungan tribe with warrior headgear waits to perform "war between neighbors" on the third day of the state annual Hornbill Festival at the Naga heritage village of Kisama, some 15 km from Kohima, the capital of Nagaland.
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