ME AND MUSEUM

THE MORANS AND THEIR TRADITIONAL HOUSE - N.Shakmacha Singh The Morans are mostly found in the Dibrugarh and Tinsukia Districts of Assam. Larger concentration of this population exists in the eastern extremity of the Tinisukia district, and those inhibiting in this region are traditionally known as Morans of the Samarpith. We often find that Moran-Matak as a single nomenclature is simultaneously used and sometimes they are also called the Mayamaria or Moamaria. This creates a some kind of confusion to the people who visit them. It seems sometimes that Moran and Mottok are synonymous to one another. This juxtaposition, however, is confusing, but provides some interesting aspects of their socio-cultural and historical blending of their ancestral past. Prior to 1251 A.D., the region between the Brahmaputra and the Burhi Dihing in Dibrugarh district, was called Matak country and was ruled by Bor Senapati. (Sipra Sen 1999:154). Matak is a politically organised, greater community formed by s...

Under the guidance of four traditional painters of the Royal Guild (Karigar Loishang), eight young contemporary artists took part in a workshop jointly organized by IGRMS and Manipur State Museum in the year 2000 at Imphal. These paintings depict some of the interesting episode of the legendary epic of Moirang Kingdom - the Khamba and Thoibi. The myth of Moirang is unveiled from the tragic end of an adoring pair of he-pegion and she-pegion. An unknown hunter in his own delight had killed the birds. This unfaithful incident had alienated the union of the two souls in this living world. It was under the willful act of the Almighty that the two souls took rebirth successively up to their ninth humanly reincarnations. The seventh rebirth has stamped a spectacular event of prowess, treachery and conflict of human sentiment into this Kingdom. Khamba- the poor orphan born in a poor family and his only sister Khamnu gave all her utmost care to grow a faithful brother who always strives for t...

Rabha way of celebration by drinking CHOKO- a locally brewed rice beer. (Rampur Village, Assam, India)

Saling- a memorial of the ancestral past

SANCHIPAT LEKHAN: An ancient tradition of writing manuscript among the Satras manuscript writing Satra tradition of manuscript writing

me and museum: Tui-Changshu; a water operated pounding lever husking lever