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Accoring to the cultue and tradition of tribal people have the entertaintment
programmes of Dance and songs. The chief attraction is the evening dance and
songs. Though tribal people talk in the own language at home, they use regional
language in the market places.
All the tribe adopt music as one of the chief items of amusement and during peak festival season
it becomes their main occupation.They are very fond of music and a varity of crude instruments, stringed,
and percussive are in use. Women sing in chorus when working in the fields, and men and boys while away
in the lonely hours of watching cattle by warbling to themselves plaintive melodies on bamboo flutes or twanging
a two stringed mandolin provided with a dried gound for a sounding board. Dancing is however, the dirversion of
which all men and women alike are most passionately fond. In time of festivals dancing parties begin at nightfall,
last whole night and continue even through the following day. Each tribe has its own particulr dance. The best
efforts of the Kondhs are clumsy beside those of some of the tribes. Tribes like Bondas, Gadabas, Kondhs and Koyas
have their own distinctive music and musical instruments. The preparation and manipulation of some of these
instruments are done with such skill that, exteremely simple though they are, it becomes almost impossible to emulate them.
In each tribe different type of music are prescribed for different seasons and different occasions.
On the whole, the Bondas keep their own rules fairly well. they observe the taboos on incest or adultery and their
religious obligations with such fidelity that the few exceptions are long remembered. The Bonda spent a great deal
of time on their religion and its feasts and holidays are an important part of Bonda life which can hardly be understood
apart from them.Cetrain features are common to every festival. The religious occusions are real festivals and holidays;
dancing accompanies each festival and there are some relaxation of rules which forbid men and women of the same village
to dance together. At every festival there is a routine worship or placeation of every demigod and demon in the calendar.
The chief festival amoung the Kondh is the Kedu festival which was once associated with human sacrifice. At present
a buffalo is sacrificied in place of the human victim.
Hunting is one of the people's favourite recreations. In the hot season and especially in the month of "Chaitra",
when all the world makes holiday, organized beats are held in which all the men and boys of the village take part, armed with
bows and arrows, axes or spears and occasionally with matchlocks and slay any live things, irrespective of age or sex, which
they may meet in the forest. Such expeditions, as a matter of course, culminate in a feast and earouse inthe village.
The Koyas have an interesting dance i which the men tie buffalo or bison horns on their heads and engage in mimic fight;
their women also dance prettily in a ring with their hands in each other's shoulder.
At a Parojas dance all the girls and the younger married women of the village form themselves into a chain, each maiden
passing her right hand behind the next girls back and grasping the left elbow of the third. The girls arrange themselves
carefuly according to size, the youngest, who are generally nine and ten years old, at one end and at other the leader
of the crops de ballet who carries a boton of pecocks feathers in her right hand to mark the time. Three or four men
take their stand in the middle of the dancing floor and strike up song which they accompany on their mandolins while the
long chain of girls linked together and moving in perfect time, follow the leader with her, swaying baton, through an
intricate searies of sinuous lines, curvest spirals, figures-of-eight and then unnavel themselves back into line again.The
chain of comenly young maidens dressed in their hair neatly oiled and decked with flowers and all in the height of good
humor is a picturesque and pleasing sight.
The dances of the Gadabas are simpler but no les spirited. The chain of girls, alldressed exactly alike in their red,
white and blue striped sarees reaching barely halfway to the knee, and with their feet loaded with heavy chased brass
anklets which they clink together in time, swings around in a circle to the accompaninet of muffled drums.The girls
chant together in unison as they go around, and the time gets ever quicker and quicker, their steps longer and longer,
but still perfect steps is kept until the chain breaks or the leader is exhausted.
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