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can be developed into a nice form of dance to perform in any cultural function . It has got great potentials to develop into a popular folk dance of the state .
Mamita Dance
The Tripuris have customary practice to eat new harvested jhoom rice ceremonially . The festival of eating rice is called Mamita . It is a Tripurri word ( kok Borok ) meaning rice-eating . Hence the dance performed during this ceremony is called Mamita dance . The jhoom crops are harvested by the end of the Sep-October month . Then the phase of storing comes in . they build up temporary godown in the jhoom field to store up the unthrased crops . The Mamita festival is not held immediet after harvest . After few days the crops are thrashed and shifted to home and then finding out an auspicious day the Mamita festival is celebrated with the great festive mood . On the eve of Mamita festival there is customary practice to sacrifice fowls at the altar of ‘ Randak ’. ‘ Randak ’ is a ricecontainer of large size made of earth . It is symbol of Laxmi , the goddess of fotune . After worship the family members together with invited close relatives sit together and starts eating new rice . To make the ceremony more joyous and vivacious a group of dancers both men and women prform dance recital which is known as Mamita dance .
Musical Instruments
Studies on tribal dances are incomplete , without understanding music . Tripuris are endowed with innate love for music and dance . They have several kinds of musical instruments of their own . Musical instruments are a must for vocal as well as dance trperformed . The common varieties of their musical instruments are Drum , flute , Changpreng , Sairinda and Dangdu . All these instruments are melodiously played by experts instrumentalists .
Drum
It is called ‘ Kham ’ by them . It is made of wood of which both ends are covered with cowhide . The kham is played on the occasions of music and dance recital . This is also beaten on funeral and other ceremonial occasions .
Flute
Tripuris call it Sumu . It is very popular musical instruments of Tripuris . Tripuri young men have innate love to play the note of romantic love-song by flute . It is also played on to the accompaniment of different dance recitals like Garia and other kind of dances .
Sarinda
It is sringed musical instrument of common kind . This is also found to be used among the tribes of hilly region of north India and Bihar . Its body is so deeply pinched that it looks as though it is of two parts . The lower portion is a small pearshaped one with a hide covering . The upper part is much bigger which is kept open . Over this , run four strings o twisted cotton , gut or metal . It is played on as the fitting
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