Apatani woman on a house ladder

This young woman is climbing up a knotched wooden plank, which served as a ladder to an Apatani house, raised high off the ground to prevent water damage and to allow pigs and chickens to feed underneath : a small bamboo altar is seen in the bottom right corner : Her coarse cotton skirt, popular at...

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Full title: Apatani woman on a house ladder [electronic resource] English.
Format: Photo           
Language: English
Published: [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1944.
Series: SOAS Digital Library.
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