Sukpum thaltawh also known as pole walk, a pole covered with grease to make it more difficult to walk, participants to walk as far as possible down a greased pole without falling off. Player who would be able to walk through the end of the greased pole is considered the winner. It is one of the indigenous games of Zomi ancestral which had then been played as a traditional game from generation to generation of the people of Zomi and played as one of the compulsory items of indigenous games on the occasions of Zo customary festivals and also on the occasions of coronations of the Zo chiefs and history.
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