Sokra Misawa Festival
- March 18, 2023
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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Sokra Misawa Festival
Subject : History
Section: Art and Culture
Concept:
- Sokra Misawa Festival is celebrated by Tiwas tribals in Karbi Anglong district, Assam.
- Tiwa tribal boys wearing headgears called Sakrashata which is made of the inner part of a tree and perform their traditional rituals during the Sokra Misawa festival.
- It is believed that people of Tiwa community who inhabit in the hills are not permitted to prepare their paddy field for the next harvest before performing this ritual.
- It is a spring time festival of the Tiwas where they worshipped the deities of nature.