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Wangala (Hundred Drums Festival)
The Garo post harvest festival, danced to a hundred drums, with women in the wrapped dakmanda and feather headdress.
What is worn for Wangala (Hundred Drums Festival)
Wangala is the post harvest festival of the Garo people of Meghalaya, held in November in honour of Misi Saljong, the sun god of fertility. The famous celebration is the Hundred Drums Wangala at Asanang in the Garo Hills, where drummers beat large oval drums and dancers move in lines. Men wear feather headdresses, and women dress in the dakmanda, a wrapped lower cloth woven with bands of colour, with a blouse and ornaments of beads and brass. The dakmanda is tied at the waist and falls to the ankle. The date moves a little from year to year, in the second week of November.
Also part of it, and being written: Dakmanda (The Garo wrapped cloth, woven with coloured bands.).
Written by the EveryPallu desk with AI assistance. Background: "Wangala" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from place to place and family to family. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.