traditional tatooed face and elaborate earrings of the Kuthia Kondh tribal woman Orissa weekly tribal market
he Kuthia or Kutia Kondh Women wear traditional jewelry including elaborate ear rings and noserings and are often tattooed elaborately on their Kuthia Kondh are one of the large number of tribal minority groups living in the Eastern Ghats of Orissa in India. Most of the tribal habitat is hilly and forested whilst tribal economy is subsistence oriented combining hunting and collecting Tribals freely practised shifting cultivation assuming that land, forest, water and other natural resources belonged to them. Terrace cultivation which is practised by Kondh Tribal communities leads to problems: (i) want of record of right for land under occupation, (ii) land alienation (iii) problems of indebtedness, (iv) lack of power for irrigation (v) absence of adequate roads and transport, (vi) seasonal migration to other places for wage-earning and (vii) lack of education and adequate scope for modernization. As for marriage, the most widely prevalent practice among the tribes of Orissa is through "capture".bride-price is an inseparable part of tribal marriage, The religion of the Orissan tribes is an admixture of animism, animalism, nature-worship, fetishism, shamanism, anthropomorphism and ancestor worship
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Location: Eastern Ghats,Orissa,India,Asia
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