Formerly headhunters Hill Miri tribesmen wear traditional red jackets and animal fur hat and carry swords in scabbards


Arunachal Pradesh is India's newest and least known state. From 1875 until 1995 it was off limits to tourists and casual were then passed to allow limited cultural tourism with a pricetagof 150US$ per lush lonely area has several well defined tribal groups who live in bamboo and palm longhouses on stilts against flooding. AP has some of the highest annual rainfall in this unspoilt mountain paradise people live in patriachal societies where religion is mostly animist and men were former headhunters


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Location: Arunachal Pradesh,North East India,Asia
Photo credit: © NORMA JOSEPH / Alamy / Afripics
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