Instead, what I want to point out is the animal on the poster. It's the state animal, known as a 'mithun' or 'Indian bison'. I would call it a 'gaur', rhyming with both 'power' and 'sour' - apt descriptions of the animal or so I recall from reading Willard Price's Indian Adventure as a kid. According to Wikipedia 'mithun' refers to the domesticated variety, but people here call even the wild ones 'mithun'.
They are pretty massive, being larger than African buffalo. Their skulls adorn many important houses around Nagaland, although nowadays the typical method of execution is a bullet through the forehead so you'll see a little hole at the front. The meat is also eaten - it's no surprise that it tastes like beef, just maybe a bit more gamey. There are a number of different hybrids of cattle and mithun (I have about 5 of their names in Sumi, though I'm not really sure how many combinations are possible - quarter cow, three quarters mithun?).
On our way to Satoi last week, we saw one on the road which ran off as the vehicle passed by. We then saw a group of guys along the road who were presumably going on a hunt for that mithun. On our way back, we spotted another one, but it had an oddly white face and slightly pinkish eyes - like it was albino, but only from the neck up. I caught these on my camera as we were driving by.
Looking a bit like a demon buffalo?
