THE TRIBAL COMMUNITY OF JANGALMAHAL

                                                                                                                                       

Figure 1 HUNTRING INSTUMENTS OF THE TRIBAL PEOPLE

                       Tuesday, I visited a tribal village at Karur forest in the Jangalmagal region . The tribal community lives in the denser part of the forest of the area, the settlement pattern is isolated but compact.

The tribal people are very hard working , They make mud houses with thatched roof and paint the wall with different colours which they collect from the forest.






Figure 2 Rat killing instrument

                                                

                       

Figure 3 Hunting process of the tribal community.

      The tribes continue to thrive their subsistence from hunting –gathering and collecting other forest based products. They use harpoon, arrow and other instrument for hunting wild bear , rat , sheep and other wild animals               .

Figure  4  Small river coming from the top of the hill.


                    Geomorphically this is a hilly region where a small river flows from the top of a hill. The granite outcrop is the main landmass of this area and basalt, laterite are the other main rocks found

in this area.

Figure 5 Hunting net

         The tribal village in this forest is small in size, The people are honest and faithful. They lead a cultural, social and religious life that is totally different from our present lifestyle

                      

Figure 6 Hurpoons

. They believe Maregurung  ( the main god of the tribal community in the region ) and Ojhas for solving their problems, They primarily worship Tree and some natural thing that are found easily in the forest. Nilmahaved mandi, one of the tribal man , helped me to visit the village and make me understand their hunting system, living pattern, religious practice and showed me how they make the hunting instruments .The tribal community lived in the forest happily and comfortably. I was quiet influenced by their social ,cultural and religious life.

Figure 7 Me with tribal peoples