Compare the ornaments worn by men and women of different states including manipur and nagaland?
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Answer:Traditional ornaments for the Nagas is belief to be a subject of both tangible and intangible heritage, tangible in its unique art forms and designs, and intangible in its usage or performing art form, in terms of substance by products and hypostasis of the substance.
For Nagas ornaments and jewelries are very much part of life. It is traditional attire when wears it, life when socially associates and considered, community living when an artist wears it and perform, and an oral expressions of traditional knowledge when communicates it.
Ornaments reflect interlinked relationship of human being with the nature. Unique features of every single ornament and a design in and on it characterise natural relationship of God’s creation, living and nonliving beings. Naga’s ornaments are inclusive in nature. If we are asked to see the whole universe at one glance, than it would be a Naga ornaments.
Combination of whole particles of materials used, associated rituals, crafting procedure and formulaties that are enshrined in the ornaments has volumes of traditional knowledge concerning Universe and environment.
The very essence of Naga egalitarian community life of coexistence is well depicted in the ornaments. Its symbolical messages and meaning illustrates: planet forces and tales, science of animal kingdom and its products, flora and fauna beauty and resources, and gems medicated power etc., etc.
Naga ornaments blend with traditional symbolic message and creative forms and designs artifacts colourful culture. To safeguard Ornaments and it’s traditional and cultural values we can strictly classified it into two categories, traditional ornaments and modern Art and craft jewellery or so called contemporary ornaments. Later has life in itself and cannot be substituted, while former is the replication of modern art or foreign products.
Traditional ornaments are made out of:
Birds: Hornbill feather,
Animals bone: Elephant task, wild boar tooth, bear skin, He goat hair etc.
Water creatures: sea shells
Gems: Stones
Flora and fauna:
Tree trunk
Orchids
Bamboo
Dried and green ferns and foliage
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Traditional Dresses of Manipur
The easy to wear traditional dress of Manipur consists of a shawl known as Innaphi, a wrap around cloth Phanek and a stiff skirt type clothing called sarong. The Phanek is usually worn with a blouse and an upper cloth which is worn like a mini saree. With the spread of Christianity here, the young Manipuri girls like to wear jeans and tops or shirts. However, they also wear the modified versions of their traditional attire. For example, the Innaphis worn by Manipuri women are much similar to the modern wrap around skirt. The women of Manipur wear different clothes at different festivals. For example, on the occasion of Rasa Leela festivals, they wear the Potlois and Kumins. Koks an Phurits etc. are worn during the dance based festivals. Different tribes of Manipur have their own distinctive dresses like Lmaphie, Saijounba, Ningthoupee and Phiranji. The dress called oirang Phi' is worn like as a saree by many women across India.
Traditional Dresses of Nagaland
The traditional shawls are the most prominent as well as popular traditional clothing of Nagaland. The women of Aos clan of Nagaland wear a skirt- one and a quarter metre long. Around 2/3 of the skirt length is draped around the waist and the outer edge is used for securing the dress. These skirts are of varied types and differ according to villages and clans. Some of the popular types of Ao skirts include Azu jangnup su- with red and yellow-black stripes; Ngami su- the fish tail skirt; and Yongzujangau- the cucumber seed skirt which is woven in red threads on a black base. The women of Angami clan mostly wear a plain blue cloth and a white cloth with black marginal bands of varying breadth . They can also be seen in men`s garment.