The second day under the celebration of 39th Foundation Day of Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya (IGRMS) was marked with inauguration of an exhibition, documentary screening, annual lecture, art & craft and food delicacies apart from folk and tribal dances of Arunachal Pradesh on Sunday. The celebrations of the day commenced with the inauguration of a special exhibition on People and Culture of Arunachal Pradesh ‘Arunachal Paridrishya’ by Director, IGRMS), Prof Sarit Kumar Choudhuri Arun Kumar Shrivastava (Joint Director), former directors KK Mishra and Sujeet Som along with educationists from Arunachal Pradesh.
Traditional arts and crafts of Arunachal Pradesh are in exhibition and sale. Arunachal Pradesh is a hub of beautiful handicrafts composing wide range in variety. All the people has a tradition of artistic craftsmanship. A wide variety of crafts such as weaving, painting, pottery, smithy work, basketry, woodcarving etc are found among the tribal people of Arunachal Pradesh.
The traditional cuisine of Andhra Pradesh is still own distinctive flavours and delicious taste absolutely mouth-watering having a liberal use of species. Specialties of Àrunachal food are smoked, boiled and healthy. The noon started on tasty note, the visitors and guests were all dished up with food viz rice cake, mince chicken, egg curry and apin of Adi Group, dry fire fish, local rice in bamboo, roasted meat, local sluts and pumpkin curry of Nyshi group and Galos Group apin pinam (boiled rice) and boiled chicken.
In the afternoon, a special screening of a documentary on various tribes of Arunachal Pradesh was organised at Veethi Sankul auditorium. The director of the documentary, Prof Mojiriba with the help of slides explained the culture and lifestyle of Arunachal Pradesh. Officer in-charge of Cine-Video section of IGRMS, HBS Parihar gave the vote of thanks after the documentary screening.