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Pongtu Festival

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  • Celebrated on/during: February
  • Significance:

    The Tutsa Pongtu Festival is an annual agricultural festival celebrating the new season and ensuring a good harvest. It features rituals, communal feasts, bonfires, traditional music, and dancing. The tribe’s chief examines a sacrificed animal’s liver to predict the year’s prospects. The festival highlights the Tutsa tribe’s rich cultural heritage, including hand-woven attire.