Stone pulling ceremony by Angami tribe

Over a dozen Naga tribes gather each year for the Hornbill Festival aimed at uniting the groups which have been dogged by inter-tribal conflict and violence in the past.

The stone pulling ceremony was traditionally held in honour of a couple who would provide a feast for the entire village.

In return, the village people dress in traditional garb and drag a massive stone from the forest to the couple's house.

The ceremony hasn't been held in decades, but this year the village of 10,000 pitched in to revive the tradition, dragging a massive stone - five and a half metres long and almost two metres wide - along a one kilometre stretch of road. The stone is pulled using hundreds of metres of vines tied together to form a long rope.

source - www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/.../hornbill-festival.../

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