Indigenous ball...

A young boy blowing a ‘pig’s bladder’ (indigenous ball) during the Paong Lung festival at Waoshu village, Tuensang District. Paong Lung festival is a thanksgiving festival of the Chang Nagas of Waoshu village and is celebrated after the harvest in the fields are done. It is celebrated for six days where the villagers belonging to the same field groups gather and make merry by singing songs, dancing and feasting. Photo by Toshi Kichu