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Diorama and wax figures of Adi Minyong people in Jawaharlal Nehru Museum, Itanagar.

The Minyong are a sub-group of the Adi people, a tribal people living in Arunachal Pradesh, India. The Minyong are found in East Siang, Siang and West Siang district.[1] They have originated from Riga Village. Their villages are mostly found on the right bank of river Siang (Brahmaputra), starting from Riga village to plains of Assam, Jonai. They consider Donyi-Polo as their religion but recently there has been conversion to Christianity.

Like any other tribes of ADI they celebrate Solung, Aran and Etor as their festivals.

Minyong like other Tani group name their offspring with prefix 'Ta' for male and 'Ya' for female, e.g. Tapang for baby boy and Yaman for baby girl earlier;However, this practice has been abandoned & changed recently.

References

  1. ^ Pertin, Odol (December 2015). "Folk History on Origin and Early Migration of the Adi-Paadam Tribe of Arunachal Pradesh" (PDF). International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research in Science Society and Culture. 1 (2). Retrieved 1 December 2021.