[go: up one dir, main page]

An Entity of Type: ethnic group, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Hill Miri (exonym) are a native tribe of Arunachal Pradesh in Northeast India. They are spread in Upper Subansiri and districts. The term "Hill Miri" was given by the British Administration to distinguish between the “Plain Miri” of Assam and the “Nyishi” of Arunachal Pradesh. They speak a Tibeto-Burman language, but the exact origin of their language is disputed.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Hill Miri (exonym) are a native tribe of Arunachal Pradesh in Northeast India. They are spread in Upper Subansiri and districts. The term "Hill Miri" was given by the British Administration to distinguish between the “Plain Miri” of Assam and the “Nyishi” of Arunachal Pradesh. They speak a Tibeto-Burman language, but the exact origin of their language is disputed. The festival celebrated with enormous pomp and gaiety is , on 6 February. The rituals of these festivals are carried out by the community priests (nyub/nyubu) which include chanting of hymns and sacrificing animals viz. mithun (sobe/sebe), goat, chicken (pork), pig (irri) etc., and serving of local brew (opo) to attendees. The traditional attire of men includes lenin, cloth wrapped over the body covering the upper portion of the body up to the knees, and headgear includes a cap (bopar/bopa/bopia) made of cane which has a strap of bearskin attached anteriorly (sometimes with a hornbill beak at the top). The man carries a machete (orok/oriok) and a knife (rwchik/rwuchuk) shoved inside a bamboo sheath wrapped with animal furs. The women's clothing includes a blouse and a long cloth (gale) wrapped around the waist with a beautiful piece of art knitted on it. The tribe are agriculturalist and primarily grow crops such as dagam (rice), temi (millet), mekung (cucumber), takie (ginger) and a host of green leafy vegetables. Jhum cultivation was dominant among the tribe but over the course of time have started adopting WRC gradually. They grow millet especially to prepare a local brew (opo), also made from the rice, which is very popular among members of the community and other tribes as well. The brew is served in plenty on occasions like festivals, marriages, and parties. (en)
  • Os miris das montanhas sâo um grupo tribal em Arunachal Pradesh, Índia. Eles estão estabelecidos principalmente dentro e por volta de . Em 1998, a tribo foi consolidada com uma tribo mais populosa, Nishi, devido à sua minúscula população. A consolidação ainda é um assunto que gera discordância entre muitos miris. (pt)
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 8530150 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 2892 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1109320934 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dct:subject
gold:hypernym
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Os miris das montanhas sâo um grupo tribal em Arunachal Pradesh, Índia. Eles estão estabelecidos principalmente dentro e por volta de . Em 1998, a tribo foi consolidada com uma tribo mais populosa, Nishi, devido à sua minúscula população. A consolidação ainda é um assunto que gera discordância entre muitos miris. (pt)
  • Hill Miri (exonym) are a native tribe of Arunachal Pradesh in Northeast India. They are spread in Upper Subansiri and districts. The term "Hill Miri" was given by the British Administration to distinguish between the “Plain Miri” of Assam and the “Nyishi” of Arunachal Pradesh. They speak a Tibeto-Burman language, but the exact origin of their language is disputed. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Hill Miri people (en)
  • Miris (pt)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:wikiPageDisambiguates of
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License