Religion, rituals and festivals play a pivotal role in any culture. Festivals are social expressions of collective religious belief in any society or community. Most of the societies, whether primitive or folk or modern, have their own festivals and these are celebrated in one form or the other. This paper is an attempt to understand and analyse the structural, organizational and functional aspects of Reh festival of Idu Mishimis of Arunachal Pradesh, India.
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