The Mising tribe is an indo-mongoloid tribe mostly inhabiting in the Banks of the river Brahmaputra and its tributaries of Assam. A few live in and around Pasighat of Arunachal Pradesh. They are the second largest tribal group (plain) of Assam. Originally they were hill dwellers and inhabited in the northern hills of the upper Brahmaputra valley, in Siang and Lohit districts of Arunachal Pradesh. According to the Census of India, 2001 the population of Mising tribe in Assam was 587,310 constituting 17.8 percent of the total ST population in Assam.

Different types of clothes and garments of Mising tribe are made in handlooms with simple implements and equipments. The varieties are seen in designs, colour combination, and motifs woven artistically in the clothes displaying aesthetic beauty. Different apparels are used on different occasions in the socio-cultural life of the Mishing society. Some clothes woven by Mising tribe women are ugon, galuk, jinrek, dumer, ege, gasen, gero etc.

The ‘Ali-ai-lígang’ meaning first sowing or planting of roots or seeds is the prime festival of the Mising tribe. It is celebrated in the spring season with pomp and grandeur on the first Wednesday of Fhagun month. Po-rag the post harvest festival of Mising tribe is a festival of prayers and feastand is celebrated at an interval of 5 years or more. Another occasion, called Dobur, is a ritual performed occasionally by the village community for different purposes, such as to avert a likely crop failure and ensure general well being of the community. In addition to the three traditional festivals, the Misings celebrates Bohag Bihu, Magh Bihu and Kati Bihu.