Relevance:
Anthropological Survey of India (AnSI) has recreated the huts of several tribal communities at its different regional centers.
Key Highlights:
- Chadda –
- Traditional Jarawa hut
- It has traditional baskets, bows and arrows, and other artefacts.
- Shompen hut –
- It contains a store of a paste made using the pandamus fruit.
- Mawbynna or Mawnam –
- Belongs to Khasi culture.
- Maw Shongthait: 3 upright stones with a flat table stone in front.
- Dorla tribal hut –
- Jagdalpur of Chhattisgarh.
- Mud over the bamboo wattle or slender twigs used for the side walls and date palm leaves to thatch the hut.
- Betta Kuruba tribe –
- Hilly regions of Karnataka and Nilgiris of Tamil Nadu.
About AnSI:
- AnSI is the only institute of its kind anywhere in the world to pursue Anthropological research in a Governmental setup.
- Headquarters: Kolkata
- Founded: 1945
- Administrator – Ministry of Culture
- Key objectives –
- Study the tribes and other communities that form the population of India
- Study and preserve the human skeletal remains
- Collect samples of arts and crafts of the tribes of India
- To function as a training centre
Reference: The Hindu
