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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Anjaw district, Changlang district, Dibang Valley district, East Kameng district, East Siang district, Kurung Kumey district, Lohit district, Lower Dibang Valley district, Lower Subansiri district, Papum Pare district, Tawang district, Tirap district, Upper Siang district, Upper Subansiri district, West Kameng district, West Siang district, Dree Festival, Anini, Apatani people, Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary, Sessa Orchid Sanctuary, Nocte people, Sherdukpen people, Ziro, Pasighat, Koro language, Murung, Tezu, Wancho people, Walong, Kameng Elephant Reserve, Roing, Namsai, India, Seppa, Bhalukpong, Khonsa, Kibithu, Daporijo, Along, Arunachal Pradesh, Pakhui Tiger Reserve, Bomdila, Naharlagun, Tagin people, Hawai, India, Deomali, Zekhring people, Pasighat Airport, Daporijo Airport, Along Airport, Tezu Airport, Yupia, Yingkiong, Jairampur cemetery, Hill Miri people, Hapoli, Tirap River, Chonkham. Excerpt: The Dree Festival is an Apatani agricultural rite. It involves the sacrifice of fowls, eggs and animals to the Gods - Tamu, Metii and Danyi Pilo(Sun and Moon God). The purpose of the festival is to appease these Gods so that famine could be avoided. This rite is observed by the Apatanis in Arunachal Pradesh, India. The Apatanis, who inhabit a tranquil pine clad valley called Ziro at the core of Lower Subansiri District of Arunachal Pradesh, are famous for their unique practice of wet rice cultivation. One would wonder as to how the early Apatanis had brilliantly discovered the magnificent irrigated rice cultivation without help of scientific technologies. Rice is the staple food of the Apatanis, as such for its bumper harvest the nature God and Goddesses are prayed during the Dree Festival from 4 July to 7 July of each year. (1) According to one traditional version, at IIpyo Supung one day Abotani was roaming around in t...
