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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