From the archive record
Women from Pochury Naga tribe performs a colourful dance at the Hornbill Fest. October is the month of festivity which every Pochury anxiously awaits, every year to celebrate their greatest festival Yemshe. Yemshe is the festival of welcoming the new harvest and blessing. All the Pouchuries, young and old, rich and poor celebrate this festival with great pomp and gaiety anticipating a good harvest which they deserve after a year's hard labour under scorching sun and merciless rain. No one is allowed to harvest etc. until the whole period of festival is over. Originally, the festival commence from the last part of September with different categories of observances till the final day which falls in the first week of October every year. Yemshe is observed only on the 5th October keeping in tu