Naga.
Most of Naga tribes live in Naga Land of northwest India, states of Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh. On Myanmar side of the border live population of some 100,000 naga-s. They live around western Sagaing Division, from Patkoi range in north to Thaungdyat in south, from Indian border I west to River Chindwin in east.

Head-hunting custom is basically gone following the central government rules. If successfully hunt a head of rival village warrior, he would be regarded as a real macho. But sometimes head-hunting occurred for very unreasonable purpose.
Tatoo – In Myanmar territory’s Primitive Naga village, Naga men wear the loincloth while the upper part of Naga ladies are almost naked. Some animist village, they keep on tattooing even the small children. By seeing tattoo on their bodies, you can guess which tribve they are from and which village they belong to. Some Naga villages are being burnmanised and christinised.

Naga’s biggest festival is new year festival of January 15th, called “Kaing Bi” and organized by festival committee who choose each year’s festival location and details under the control of central government.
When animism was believed by all villagers, there were many festivals almost monthly but most villages open to the foreigners today are no longer into animism, abandoning their traditional festivals.
Society- Important society units are ancestors, family names and ages. Some young villagers are educated in India. People bring agalloch, eagle-wood to Indian side for trade almost freely and there seems little restrictions for border-crossing.
Tourism is coming to a remote village community in Laeshi, Lahel and while planners see it as a perfect enterprise, you’ll be listening to Young Naga soon why they will have the final say…
Turn off along the unmetalled “ roads” that lead into the higher hills, however, and your vehicle must engage four-wheel drive if it has one, and even then negotiating axle-deep slush and treacherous landslips that erase the way ahead is not a task for the weekend adventurer. It’s best, the villagers say, to take one of the ramshackle buses that connect the hill communities with each other and hope the driver has enough unadulterated diesel in the tank to complete the journey.

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