Nyishi man performing a ritual

This Nyishi man is chanting while conducting a ritual : He holds a basket of rice powder, with which he will decorate the altar, to which a mithun is tied prior to sacrifice : He wears the traditional hair knot and skewer, cane hat with hornbill beak, wooden discs in the ear lobe and string of metal...

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Full title: Nyishi man performing a ritual [electronic resource] English.
Format: Photo           
Language: English
Published: [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1978.
Series: SOAS Digital Library.
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