Apatani women and children on porch

These Apatani women and children are standing on a house porch : traditionally, young girls were tattooed and wooden plugs were placed in girls' nostrils : at age five or six, these tattoo lines were made by pricking the skin with thorns and then rubbing in a mixture of coal black and cooking o...

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Full title: Apatani women and children on porch [electronic resource] English.
Format: Photo           
Language: English
Published: [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1944.
Series: SOAS Digital Library.
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