{"id":3122,"date":"2025-09-09T12:36:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T07:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3122"},"modified":"2025-09-09T15:30:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T10:00:34","slug":"who-are-apatani-tribes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/who-are-apatani-tribes\/","title":{"rendered":"Apatani Tribes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Apatani Tribe Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Apatani tribal women of Ziro Valley in Arunachal Pradesh are known for their facial tattoos and wooden nose plugs; banned in the 1970s, but still carried by only older women.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Apatani Tribe<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Apatani, or <\/span><b>Tanw, also known by Apa and Apa Tani<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, are a tribal group of people living in the <\/span><b>Ziro valley<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in <\/span><b>Arunachal Pradesh.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Language:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> They speak a local <\/span><b>language called Tani<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and worship the sun and the moon.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Customs and Lifestyle of Apatani Tribe<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Festivals:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> They have major festivals like <\/span><b>Dree, Myoko, Yapung and Murung.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dree is celebrated with prayers for a bumper harvest and prosperity of all humankind and Myoka celebrates friendship similar to modern friendship day.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Tattooing and Nose plug<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Apatani women are known for their distinctive <\/span><b>facial tattoos and nose plugs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2014 a tradition that began as a means of <\/span><b>protection against abduction<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>nose plugs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, called <\/span><b>Yaping Hullo,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are made <\/span><b>from wood<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> found in the forest.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>tattoos,<\/b> <b>known as Tippei,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are done by the elder women when an Apatani girl is about <\/span><b>10 years old.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They have been <\/span><b>practising integrated rice-fish farming<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in their mountain terraces of Arunachal Pradesh since the 1960s.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These tribal people principally use <\/span><b>three rice varieties:<\/b> <b>Emeo, Pyape and Mypia.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/photos\/in-frames-the-vanishing-practice-of-apatanis\/article70021680.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TH<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Apatani are a tribal group of people living in the Ziro valley in Arunachal Pradesh. 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