People

Bonda Tribal Woman

Bonda women look majestic in their unique and spectacular fashion of traditional adornments. Besides wearing a variety of ornaments, such as aluminium neck rings, bangles of glass and aluminium, they are also very fond of wearing metallic anklets, head bands made of grass or beads, etc.

Bonda Tribal Woman

Their traditional costume consists of a large mass of aluminium necklaces and colored beads.

Bonda Tribal Woman

One of the primitive tribal group, the traces of Bondas people are found in the Ramayana also.

Kondh Tribal Woman

Kondh Tribal Woman

The Kondhs possess a great love for liberty. They are faithful to their friends. Kutia Kondhs dwell in remote hills in the extreme south-west of Kondhmal district.

Kondh Tribal Woman

Kondh Tribal Woman

The Kondhs form numerically the largest group among the 62 tribes of Orissa.

Kondh Tribal Woman

Ear piercing among the women, is the most remarkable feature of the Kondhs. To make one self beautiful, a Kondh woman can have, not less than 25 to 30 ear rings in one ear.

Apatani Tribal Woman

The females of Apatani tribe have two sets of tattoos, one running from the forehead to the tip of the nose and another set on the chin.

Apatani Tribal Woman

Wearing of circular nose plugs and tattooing of faces is the most characteristic aspect of ornamentation of older Apatani women. However, the new generation of Apatani tribe have stopped this practice of tying hair knot, nose plugs and face tattooing since early 1970s.