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Patkai & Tirap Belt · Eastern Himalaya & Brahmaputra Belt
Dress here reads as a record rather than as decoration. Bead strands, brass ornaments, cane arm-rings and — historically — facial and limb tattooing all encoded specific things: clan, marital state, the completion of an initiation, and among the Wancho and their Konyak neighbours the taking of a head in a raid. Most of that grammar is now historical, worn by elderly men and kept in households as heirlooms rather than acquired. What remains in daily use is the woven cloth: narrow loin-loom panels in banded reds, blacks and whites, made into wraps and shawls whose patterns still distinguish one community from the next at a glance.
क्या पहना जाता है
A loincloth with a woven front panel, a cane belt, multiple bead strands at the throat, and a plaited cane headpiece with boar tusk, horn or feather on full ceremonial versions. Elderly men still carry the facial and body tattooing that was applied at initiation; the practice ended in the middle of the twentieth century and is not being revived.
किस मौके पर: Ceremonial
Banded cloth in red, black and white with narrow line patterning, worn as a shoulder wrap by men and as a lower wrap by women. Different band arrangements are read as community and status markers.
किस मौके पर: Everyday and ceremonial
A woven lower wrap in strong colour combinations, distinguished by diamond and lozenge patterning built up in supplementary weft. Tangsa is a cluster of many groups and their weaves are not uniform; a single "Tangsa" pattern is a simplification made for outside buyers.
किस मौके पर: Everyday and ceremonial
A dark wrap with a broad patterned border, worn with silver ornament and a turban-like head cloth on the men. It is recognisably the Kachin dress of the ranges across the ridge, because it is the same community under two administrations.
किस मौके पर: Ceremonial
A tubular woven lower garment worn with a fitted upper and a head cloth, in the Tai idiom found from here across to the Shan hills. Temple-going dress is plainer and lighter than village festival dress.
किस मौके पर: Everyday and temple
Necklaces of glass and stone beads strung with small carved or cast human heads in brass or wood. The count corresponded to a man's standing in the head-taking system that ended in the mid-twentieth century. They now function as heirlooms and as museum objects, and reproductions are sold as craft.
किस मौके पर: Formerly ceremonial
बुनाई और कपड़े
Loin-loom weaving in banded red, black and white, used for shawls and wraps. Not separately registered as a geographical indication at the time of writing.
Narrow-panel weaving used for loincloths, belts and bags, worked in strong contrasting bands. It has been overshadowed by the community's wood carving, which is the tradition that carries the GI.
Diamond-patterned cloth and bags in mixed colours, dyed with plant material and woven on a body- tensioned loom. It appears in national handloom listings of Arunachal's geographical indications; because the registration record for it is not something this entry can confirm directly, no GI claim is made here.
Hand-knotted woollen carpets woven in the Tibetan settlements established in Arunachal from the 1960s and 1970s, including the one at Miao. The Arunachal Pradesh handmade carpet was granted a geographical indication in January 2024. It is a fifty-year-old craft in a two-thousand-year-old place, and it is now one of the belt's few reliable cash crafts.
गहने
Patkai & Tirap Belt का पारंपरिक पहनावा — कपड़े, हथकरघा बुनाई, जीआई टैग वाले वस्त्र और गहने। (10)