Hornbill Festival 2007 in Nagaland (India)

A collection of short clips showing the diversity of dances, music and games on display at this amazing tribal festival in the far northeast of India.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Nagaland
• Hornbill
• Festival
• India
• Tribal
• Dance
• Naga
• Kohima

[confidential281]

love peace hope....NAGALAND!!!!

[MrHalohalo85]

its scary, the costumes and instruments in the first dance are so similar to those of the tribes of luzon. compare by searching "ifugao" here on youtube, the ifugao are one of the highland filipino tribes on luzon island. the bamboo dance itself resembles the royal "singkil" dance of mindanao in the southern philippines, and even the national dance is danced between bamboo poles (tinikling). seeing this, i'm convinced there's a link between the peoples of Nagaland and the Philippines.

[abh3092]

@0ct0ct09 ---you fight india in your dreams,ordinary nagas are not fighting india,only those living in burmese jungle

[0ct0ct09]

These Naga remind me of the native of Taiwan. The bamboo stick dance and their native wears. On a political side the Naga are fighting for their independence. It is not know in the popular western media. The Naga have more in common with east asian then with the Indian culture. The Indian government is suppressing the Naga independece movement.

[dededoi]

@StaRrySky there are many trivbes scattered throughout asia especially in the south east of the tropical mountains

[StaRrySky]

I thought you can only find this in the islands, africa, and america.. I never knew the asian mainland had these people too..

So are they related to Indians from India or Chinese?

[orangedac]

this is like the movie king kong.

at some point, with all that drum banging, a giant ape shows up right ?

[TheKhalong]

@BorneoUnited - m , hey there's this theory , not very sure about it but , says that, we were a migrating group 4m China . some settled in the northeast part of india and some went further down!! ( indonesia, and all!) and some came back . i kinda find it true , coz the old traditional ornoments that we still use are made 4m sea shells and even clothes are designed with them, there are tales 4m our fore fathers of how we came 4m the sea , and some 4m the northeast!

[BorneoUnited]

@TheKhalong ,I'm from the Island of Borneo,which divide us into 3 country,Indonesia,Malaysia and Brunei.

[TheKhalong]

@BorneoUnited where are you from??