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Chanalum Talyu, 54 years old, a resident of hwicheliang, Lohit District; A.P. He narrates about the origin and migration of Talyu. According to him, what he has got to know from his parent that the Talyu clan began from Talu-a area of Anjaw. They had four brothers and do not need to go for hunting but a wild dhole called TAPRIU in tawra used to kill wild animal for them to eat. So, the four brothers decided not to put any trap if in case the wild dhole called TAPRIU's child would get trapped and killed. But one day of their brother lay a trap for hunting the child of the wild fox was got trapped and killed. From there, the things went messy with the wild dhole (Tapriu) and the four brothers got separated. One brother went up to idu side, another to chipru side, one at Talu-a and last one went down to Lohit. We even met Idus of Talyu clan few years back they live somewhere above hunli area of Idu. The Idu clan also narrate the same story that they were migrated from Talu-a (Lohit side). He does not know about the generation but he says how Talyu clan are named sub-clan- a clan called Talyu- kara, and the one who drank tahwa stream became talyu-tahwa. |
