Ali-Ali-Ligang is the festival of Mishing. The Mishings perform some religious rites associated with agriculture. At the advent of the monsoon and before the sowing of seeds, they perform Ali-Aye-Ligang. Ceremonial sowing of paddy starts on this day.

Hunting: There are many communities which survive on hunting animals from the animal kingdom. The hunters has to devise means for killing or trapping game animals. Some of the weapons used by hunting communities are the spears, harpoons, bow and arrow. In certain hunting operation some other implements like the bola, boomerang, spear thrower, etc are also used. The missile thrower is an implement which is used in cases where the animals are present within the effective throwing range. In certain cases, hunters organize planned and communal hunting. In this kind of group hunting different methods are employed. For trapping the animals the devices used are by driving the animals into the corrals, by making pit falls, by making circles, by spear falling method, by floating harpoons, and by mimicry.

Fishing: Fishing is another important means of subsistence. Fishing communities use different methods of catching fishes from ponds, lakes, rivers and seas. Some of the methods of fishing are catching by bare hands angling or hooking, netting, trapping, piercing and stupefying.

Fishing may also be undertaken either individually or communally. Even the food producing communities are engaged in fishing activities to supplement their diet. In Assam, West Bengal and South India, there are fishing communities whose subsistence is based on fishing.