{"id":5444,"date":"2011-11-25T14:29:58","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T18:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/?p=5444"},"modified":"2011-11-25T14:37:38","modified_gmt":"2011-11-25T18:37:38","slug":"a-new-gallery-on-primitive-tribal-groups-ptgs-to-be-added-to-the-tribal-museum-in-bhubaneswar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/5444","title":{"rendered":"A new gallery on primitive tribal groups (PTGs) to be added to the tribal museum in Bhubaneswar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"515\" height=\"481\" src=\"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-content\/uploads\/image\/Screen shot 2011-11-25 at 10_19_20 AM.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Following is from a report in Indian Express.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span id=\"ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_lblDetailNews1\">The Tribal Museum  here is up for a makeover. Located on the premises of Scheduled Caste  and Scheduled Tribe Research and Training Institute (SCSTRTI), the  archives displays objects from almost every tribe. The institute is the  only government-run tribal museum in the State and&nbsp; attracts hundreds of  visitors from abroad each year. A few years back, it was identified as  the <span style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);\">best among the 21 tribal museums in India by Unesco<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Apart  from the existing five galleries in the Museum that houses ornaments,  paintings, photographs, hunting tools, agriculture implements, musical  instruments and Dokra items,&nbsp; the authorities are setting up <span style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);\">another  Primitive Tribal Group (PTG) gallery<\/span> on the institute&rsquo;s 18 acre campus.  Construction of this gallery is underway and after completion, it would  adorn artefacts related to 13 PTGs in the State. &nbsp;Plans have also  been drawn up to rope in tribal artisans and use the institute premises  as a live museum-cum-platform where tribal artisans would get the  chance to display and sell their products.&nbsp;This apart, the  Ministry of Tribal Affairs has sanctioned ` 40 lakh for beautification  of the Museum this year that would entail landscaping, construction of  pathways and plantation of trees like Sal, Mohul, Bamboo &#8230; &quot;&#8230; The land behind the five hutments within the Museum will be  used for setting up small forests that are typical to a tribal  habitation,&rdquo; said Museum in-charge Trilochan Sahoo, adding stone statues  of tribal deities will also be installed. Besides, touchscreen kiosks  will be set up in each of the existing five galleries where short films  on tribal livelihood will be screened for interested tourists.&nbsp;The  Tribal Museum has around 2,247 tribal artefacts, 34 items of textiles  of 10 tribes and 927 ornaments of 25 tribes. The five huts within the  premises are of Santal, Juang, Gadaba, Saora and Kondh tribes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Tribal Dance Festival<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The  three-day Tribal Dance Festival will&nbsp; be organised this year by the SC  &amp; ST Development Department from December 12. &#8230; every day during the festival, five tribal dances  will be showcased and this time, tribals from Chhattisgarh, West  Bengal, Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh have been invited to perform  besides the those from the State.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following is from a report in Indian Express. &nbsp; The Tribal Museum here is up for a makeover. Located on the premises of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Research and Training Institute (SCSTRTI), the archives displays objects from almost every tribe. The institute is the only government-run tribal museum in the State and&nbsp; attracts hundreds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,7,332],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bhubaneswar-cuttack-puri","category-district-khordha","category-museums"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}