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Special breakfast of the indigenous Mro tribe

An indigenous Mro tribe children and a man eating together to ceremony of worship after finishing the Zoom (Hilly tribe’s cultivation name zoom) cultivation in make-shift Zoom hut in hills of Bandarban district, Bangladesh. After harvesting the zoom crop the Mro tribe people perform a ritual worship and praying at the make shift zoom hut and the food are served among the people that no evil spirits cause harm and that next year’s crops yield abundantly.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 11.2021
Date Uploaded: 11.2024
Photo Location: Bandarban, Bangladesh
Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Copyright: © Shafayet Apollo