1.9 Material Cultural

The Chutiyas are maintaining almost all tribal culture, custom and tradition in their social life. The people of this community are mainly dependent upon agriculture. Therefore, all of their rituals and festivals are

 

 

related to agriculture. The people basically lived in the interior and remote rural places or in the river banks or sometimes in the forests and jungles. it seems that they always to fight against the nature and natural disaster far their survival_ Therefore, they traditionally practice some collective works such as community fishing, group hunting like pursing and trapping wild elephant and buffalo, collection of fire woods in the jungle, community works in agricultural field such as, bools of plowing, harvesting and seeding of agricultural paddy output like rice and other seeds etc.

i ney aiso use the tattle and buffalo carts etc. for the purpose of carriage of their paddy products, fire wood, household items, newly married couples due to their poor communication, infrastructure as well as shortage of modern amenties and education.

Chutiya community is one of the reserved type and hardly they mix up with other people. They more often separate themselves from the other societies and prefer living in isolation. Therefore they establish their villages in interior places. In a village there live atleast fifty or sixty families and they build their but and Cluing glairs (house on bamboo poles will) thatched roofs and bamboo made floors built few feet above the ground ) maintaining a little gap from each family. As they basically establish their village on the banks of the rivers, they build their houses maintaining parallel sequence with the river.

The village life of Chutiyas is very cblourful. They always maintain unity among themselves. There is a head in every village who maintains the law and controls the awkward situations if any. The villagers assemble together in community works and with unity they perform the activities of their rural cornrnuribl walk of life like-from fishing, hunting, sowing, preparing and harvesting crops to building huts or Chang Ghars, celebrating a marriage ceremony and_obscnrving death rituals and so on.

The Chutiyas are used to two kinds of dwelling - one is ground plant and the other is Chang Ghar. In every family we can have a Moral Ghat. (a bed room for married and unmarried young members ), one Bur Ghor (where they cook meal and observe rstuals).There is also a Bharat Ghar (storage of agricultural product) and a Guhaii Ghor (or keeping animals) in every family. They use bamboo, wood, and thatching grass for roof which is very comfortable for living.