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Monpas struggle to revive their long-lost tradition

Dec 16, 2024 4 mins read

Trongsa—Sixty-seven-year-old Nakari from Jangbi, Trongsa, is the last person in the Mon community to wear the ancestral pagay, a symbol of Monpa culture that faded in the 1960s in favour of the gho and kira.

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