Dongria Kondh tribal women carrying heavy loads on their way to the weekly barter market ,Orissa,India.


The Dongria Kondh are one of the large number of tribal minority groups living in the Eastern Ghats of Orissa in Kondh use a language of the Dravidian family. Most of the tribal habitat is hilly and forested whilst tribal economy is subsistence oriented combining hunting and collecting with shifting cultivation. Women wear traditional jewelry and a massive number of modern hairclips !


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Location: Orissa,India,
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