INDIGENOUS GAMES OF MAGNIFICENT MIZORAM

INDIGENOUS GAMES OF  MAGNIFICENT MIZORAM

Image (C) Dr Ajay Kumar Ojha

1. Insuknawr: This game requires player/players holding both ends of a wooden pestle or a bamboo pole with hands push each other. Any available wooden pestle or a bamboo pole can be used for the purpose. The game can be played as singles or 2 or 3 persons at both ends. It is mainly played by male/boys.

Image (C) Dr Ajay Kumar Ojha

2.  Inkawibah: Is a game played by both sexes of Mizo children. Sometimes adult male and female also play and no limit to the number of players is fixed. However, the players are divided into two groups or teams. There are various kinds of games and methods of play. The material used in this game locally called ‘Kawi’, the seeds of a large creeper bean (Entada Scanden) as such the game is called ‘Inkawibah’. Now a day, it is mainly played by female.

3. Insaihruipawh: The material used in this game is a rope. The two ends of which are tide round the neck of the two players each trying to move in the opposite directions, if one move southwards the other move northwards. If a line draw at the centre is cross by a mark made in the middle point of the rope, the player who moves further forward is the winner. In earlier past, jungle creeper was used for no rope was available.

4. Arpa Insual: In this game one of the legs is held by one hand in the backside, the other hand has to hold the hand which is holding the leg. By standing with one leg the two opponents tries to push out each other from the circle within which they are fighting in any possible manner. The one who push the opponent out from the circle is the winner.

      5. Inbuan: In this game the two opponents, usually tries to lift              up his opponent.                The one who lift the opponents is              the winner. Formerly the game was played                  with                  bare hands. Since some years back the use of cloth has                      been introduced.