Roof tops of an Apatani village
As Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf discovered, Apatanis live in narrow houses and compact villages in order to use every square metre of land for wet-rice agriculture : the thatched roof seen here was sometimes laid on top of split and flattened bamboo more fire-resistant and water-tight, : thatch w...
| Full title: |
Roof tops of an Apatani village [electronic resource] English. |
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| Format: | Photo |
| Language: | English |
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[S.l.] :
[s.n.],
1944.
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| Series: |
SOAS Digital Library.
FURER. RSA. PHOTOS. |
| Subjects: |
Asia
-- India
-- Arunachal Pradesh
-- Lower Subansiri District
-- Ziro Tehsil
-- Hija
-- Apatani River valley.
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| Online access: |
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| Summary: |
As Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf discovered, Apatanis live in narrow houses and compact villages in order to use every square metre of land for wet-rice agriculture : the thatched roof seen here was sometimes laid on top of split and flattened bamboo more fire-resistant and water-tight, : thatch was abandoned by the 1970s, and since the 1990s corrugated iron sheeting has been preferred. |
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| Language: | English |
| Published: |
[S.l.] :
[s.n.],
1944.
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| Subjects: | |
| Series: |
SOAS Digital Library.
FURER. RSA. PHOTOS. |
| Access: |
© 1944, The Estate of Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf. The Estate is currently (2015) represented by Nicholas Haimendorf, son of Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf. ----- Creative Commons (by-nc-nd). -- This image may be used in accord with Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs. |
| Place of Publication: |
India -- Arunachal Pradesh -- Lower Subansiri District -- Hija -- Apatani River valley. |