NEW CONTEST IN STEEM ARGENTINA: REGIONAL DANCES - Nomination from @sampu - Tribal dance in the Hornbill Festival, India

Today I like to take my friends from Steem Argentina to Hornbill Festival - which is popularly known as "the festival of festivals"

Nagaland is one of the north eastern state in India. Most of the population of the state are tribals. Each year, the Nagaland Government arrange this festival on 01 December to 08 December. The major tribes are invited to showcase their culture, tradition and food in the festival ground.

These pictures are from the hunting dance by the Angami tribes. They perform this dance in the village before going for hunting.

Note the artificial tail that the dancers are wearing as a part of their costume. They believe this will please the Animal God and the Animal God will send animals for them during the hunting.

The festival is arranged in open air theater. After the performance, the visitors can meet the performers outside the open air theater. During the festival days, the tribal representatives made temporary hut within the festival ground. They sell their traditional food, dress, handicrafts as souvenir to the visitors.

To attend this festival, international travelers need to fly to Guwahati Airport. From Guwahati, they can reach Kohima by domestic airlines or take a train to Dimapur and then hire car till Kohima. From Kohima they need to visit Hornbill festival which is held at Khisema.

Visitors require Inner Line Permit to visit Nagaland.

Hornbill festival was cancelled in 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic. I enquired and found it is uncertain for 2021.

The photographs used in this post are clicked on December 2017 using my Huawei Honor 6 Mobile phone.My sincere thanks to @belenguerra and @fendit for reading my post. As a prerequisite to participate in the contest, I have re-steemed this announcement.