Every Tangsa household has a traditional hearth in the middle of the front room with a simple rack suspended above the fire. The base of the rack is like a net on which food products are stored, and smoked for the necessary duration of time.
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Title: Indigeneous cooking space of the Tangsas
Date Created: 2022
Location: Changlang district
Contributor: Dept. of Tourism, Govt. of Arunachal Pradesh facilitated the on-ground research.
Rights: Banglanatak.com, Ambassador's Fund for Cultural Preservation
About the craft: Tangsa community resides mostly in the Dihing Patkai region of the Changlang district of eastern Arunachal Pradesh.The community believes that they have migrated from Mongolia, Yunnan and Mynamar many centuries back.The gorgeous Noa Dehing river originates from the Dapha Bum of Patkai hills and cuts through the pristine forests of this region.
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