When the Garia festival is over, the people in Tripura have time to take rest & relax while waiting for monsoons. During this period, charming colorful insects called `Lebang` visit the hill slopes and search for the seeds, which are sown here. This season, being the annual visit of the insects, gives the tribal youth a chance in indulging in the merry-making process. In this dance, the men make a peculiar rhythmic sound with two bamboo chips held in their hand and the rhythm produced by the bamboo chips, attract the insects from their hiding places and the women folk run tottering across the hill slopes to catch hold of these insects.
For this dance, the Tripuris use the musical instruments like the Khamb made of Bamboo, Flute, Sarinda, Lebang made of bamboo and bamboo cymbal. Tripuri women are fond of ornaments. Generally, for this occasion they wear an indigenous ornaments like chain made of silver with coin, bangle made of silver, ear and nose rings made of bronze along with the flowers as the ornaments to look their best, during the dance. Today, with time jhuming on hill slopes is gradually diminishing from this part. But the cultural life that developed around the Jhum has delved deep into the social life of these people, since most of the state`s population on the hill slopes, practise it.
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