Culture & Tradition: One of the biggest clan of tiwas the ‘Amkhawali’ people are used to celebrate ‘WANSUA MISAWA’ festival in the interval of every five to six years. This festival celebrated during the month of May and a first part of July and generally its start on Tuesday and completed on Thursday. The main function occurred on Wednesday at the residence of ‘SHANGDOLOI’. Where the ‘SHAM’ (wooden mortar, UROL in Assamese) are buried nearly half portion at the open ground in a circle.
The youths of the same clan came from different villages took parts in the dance of ‘Wansua Misawa’ and with the rhythm of KHRAM, PANGSI and THURANG they used to grind the wet rice with ‘Lomphor’ (wooden pestle / Ural mari in Assamese) till rice became powder.
Then the ‘Pisai’ (office bearer) of the villages distribute this ‘wankuri’ to every household and the household cooked it in water vapors and in the next morning bring the ‘Wan rusa’ (cooked rice cake) in the house of ‘Shangdoloi’ and performed the rituals activities by offering the ‘Wan rusa’ to ‘SODONGA RAJA’ and ‘MALDEO’. Then they mixed all the ‘Wan rusa’ and again distribute it to every household in the village.
As such by late evening of Thursday the ‘WANSUA MISAWA’ festival come to an end. Next morning the villagers pay respect and farewell the youths from different villages who have participated in this ‘WANSUA MISAWA’. It is to be noted that this festival is performed under strict supervisions of ‘Shangdoloi, Shangmaji, Huruma, Khuramul’ and others officials of the village.
This info is collected from : http://tiwatribe.blogspot.in/
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