A woman preparing food inside a bamboo home in Arunachal Pradesh

Living Traditions

Ceremonies the calendar still keeps.

Aoling at the first rain. Myoko among the Apatani at the turn of spring. Hornbill in the cold light of December. These are not performances — they are the year, remembered out loud.

Guests welcomed by local hosts in traditional Assamese attire

Ziro valley, Arunachal Pradesh

Myoko — Among the Apatani

Annual · March

Myoko is the Apatani festival of friendship and fertility, rotating each year between three clusters of villages in the Ziro plateau. It is one of the oldest continuous ceremonies in the Eastern Himalaya.

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