Shopping in Nagaland

Nagaland the land of warriors is a charming hilly station full of natural beauty and warm hearted people. A house of sixteen tribes, the state has much to explore. You must visit Naga City to view the scene of nature, the love and hospitality of the simple people, blooming wild flowers and Coy Rivers flowing their way all the way throughout rocky landscape. Visit Nagaland Tourist Places and explore the beauty of the nature. Shopping in Nagaland is an unforgettable experience for each and every visitor where one can buy souvenirs and gifts for their near and dear ones. The skilled tribal people make excellent art crafts from cane, bamboo etc. The Nagas have a rich tradition of art and craft like basketry, weaving, woodcarving, pottery, metal work etc.

 

If you visit Nagaland you can make a wonderful shopping. Nagaland tourist places are worth to visit. The most of the items available in the market are made up of using the forest products like wood, cane bamboo that serve as raw materials for the handicrafts they fashion out in their leisure times. They use natural dyes and beads and shells to embellish the artifacts, which turn out to be fantastic items for shopping in Nagaland. They lent their skills to produce items of common utility, as well those with ritualistic and artistic value.

As it is commonly said that tribal peoples are self-dependent, they make all the fundamental needs themselves. So, it is also applicable to the brave and courageous tribes of Nagaland. They have their own style of living and handmade art and crafts. The Naga tribes are basically agrarian. As the north-east is a home of the various species of the bamboos, where the tallest grass grows, the bamboo products of the Nagaland are world-famous.

Nagaland Shell Beads

Nagaland Shell Beads

Nagaland Shell Beads

Nagaland Shell Beads

Nagaland Shell Beads

Lady Weaving

Basket Weaver

Wood Carved Wall

Bamboo products

Most of the Nagaland handmade products are made from the woods and cane bamboo. The products though are built in ethnic style, this look very awesome and these products are surely occupying a place in the global market. Whenever you are planning a tour to India visit Nagaland Tourist Places and enjoy the shopping. The Naga women participate in several exhibitions in the various parts of the country and outside also with their traditional products. Skilled craftsmen are employed to carve marvelous village gates, house posts and Morungs in Naga villages. Fine storage baskets, wicker drinking vessels and containers are woven by craftsmen whose skills had been inherited from generations of skilled craftsmen.

Nagaland Tourist Places – Festivals

Nagaland is called as the land of festivals. All the tribes of the Nagaland celebrate their particular seasonal festivals with full of colors and a feast of music. The corporate character is the main thing of Naga festival.  The whole community of Nagaland are participates in the celebrations. All the festivals of Nagaland are celebrated with full of joy. Nagaland Tourist Places are worth to visit. Life in the state of Nagaland revolves around fairs and festivals. Nagaland tribes regard their festivals as revered and to them participation in all the festivals is compulsory.

 The prime occupation of the Nagaland state is agriculture and hence most of the festivals of Nagaland are based on the agriculture itself. The festive celebrations of the Nagas are marked with rare gusto which in turn amazes the onlookers with awe and admiration. The theme of all the festivals of Nagaland state remains to be the offering of prayers to a Supreme Being having different names in different Naga dialects. The chief man of the village propitiates the spirit of the Gods with sacrifices for a bountiful yield of crops. The prime festivals of Nagaland are Horn Bill Festival, Moatsu Festival, Nazu Festival, Sekrenyi Festival, Tuluni Festival, Yemshe Festival and Nazu Festival. Without visiting Nagaland Tourist Places you cannot experience their festivals. If you visit Nagaland then it will be an unforgettable experience for you.

Horn Bill Festival

Nagaland is known as the land of ‘Naga’ people. It is also the land of festivals with one festival followed by another round the year. In order to facilitate tourists to have a glimpse of all the Naga festivals at one time and one place, the Government of Nagaland has evolved a festival called Hornbill Festival, which is celebrated at Kohima, which is the capital town of Nagaland. Nagaland Tourist places and Nagaland fairs and festivals will give you the lifelong memories.

Yemshe

Yemshe festival is celebrated by the Pochury tribe of Nagaland very grandly in the month of October.  This is the best time for festivals. The arrival of the new harvest is welcomed with much exuberance and ebullience during this festival. The arrival of the festival is first announced by the village spokesman following which; the first part of rituals takes place. The last day of the feast observed as the feast-cleansing day. This Yemshe festival is celebrated in mainly in two phases, namely the Big and small Yemshe. The Big Yemshe is the time for preparations all around as the village youth cleanses the whole village. The purification of the house and a ritual feast characterizes the Small Yemshe.

Sekrenyi

The principal Angami festival is the Sekrenyi. It is celebrated in February by the Western Angamis and in December by the Southern Angamis. The festival is to ensure the health and well being of the community during the coming year. It is an occasion of great merry making; enormous quantities of rice-beer, beef and pork are consumed.

Tuluni Festival

This is the most important festival of the Sumi Nagas in Nagaland. The Tuluni Festival in Nagaland state is celebrated during the second week of the month July, a season of bounty in Nagaland. Tuluni is marked with feasts as the occasion occurs in the fruitful season of the year. This festival is celebrated with great pomp by the Sumi tribe of Nagaland.

Whenever you are planning a tour to India, visit Nagaland Tourist Places. You can visit and experience their culture, tradition etc.