Arunachal Pradesh’s Galo tribe’s lifestyle exhibited online by IGRMS

Under the Twenty-eight series of its online exhibition by Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya (IGRMS), the

traditional Galo house type

was displayed in the Tribal habitats Open-air Exhibition of IGRMS. It has been presented online with its basic information and photographs and videos. About this exhibition Dr Praveen Kumar Mishra, Director

IGRMS

, said that in this episode of online exhibition series we are introducing you to ‘The Galo’ which is one of the important tribes, largely concentrated in the

West Siang

district of Arunachal Pradesh. The tribe is among the descendants of the great ancestor of the Tani tribe - the Abotani. They are also distributed in other districts of the state.

Galo villages are often situated near the river, and the site with considerable height on the spur of hills is generally chosen for habitation. They prefer the area where there is easy access to water and

suitable land

for cultivation. The traditional Galo house is a massive structure built with locally

available materials

like wood, bamboo, cane, and palm leaves as thatching material. It is rectangular in plan and stands on stilts of wooden and bamboo poles, the height of which depends on the gradient of an undulating terrain of the land. The floor or plain surface is obtained after the arrangement of several rows of bamboo beams rested one upon the other. The pillars below the plain floor consists of wooden reinforcements that provide a unique appearance to this vernacular architecture.

Dr

Surya Kumar Pandey

said that the arrangement of raw materials is made well in advance before the construction takes place. The required quantity of tree, bamboo, and thatching leaves is adequately collected from the jungle and seasoned for its longevity. They adopt traditional methods of felling construction materials based on their age-old practices of reading the lunar cycle.

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