During the SEED SOWING festival (Chithenga in local dialect) at Oinam.
The festival mark the arrival of the spring season and the beautiful
promises the villagers hope for. Food/cultural
games/singing/dances/pottery making/fishing etc some of the highlights
of the festival. Oinam is also a home to many exotic endangered spices
and species. Most of all, the HISTORIC concentration camp memorial site (blue
bird operation 1987) also known as ground zero is one of the site one
can always visit during your stay in Oinam village. Because of it's God given landscape and altitude, Oinam also grows the famous Oinam Cabbage and produces many varied bamboo related handmade crafts. Seasonal fruits and wild apple juice are some of the cuisine one shouldn't miss... The rest, there's no better way to explore than to visit this land as guest and go back as family member.
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| Chicken |
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| Pork |
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| Smoke pork |
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| Sunburn Beef |
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| Daos one of the symbol for Naga Male knighthood and a trait of Manliness |
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| Mothers/sisters and daughters |
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| Shangla Raih and Sabina Raih ( The young generation) |
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| Young proud Oinam Naughty Boy.... |
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| Oinam in the transitional phase between modernity and tradition |
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| Gifts and token such paddy (grains) and cooked /fresh meat wrapped in the leaves are given to newly married daughters /sisters of Oinam |
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| The participants in their traditional attire for the man's Pota throw |
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| During the folk song competition |
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| Traditional indigenous women's sport |
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