Apatanis transplanting paddy in the Apatani valley
These Apatanis mostly women, with a boy and a young man standing, are transplanting paddy seedlings in rows in the regular plots : In the background, between the fields and the mountains, we can see granaries and a village : a few of the women wear on their their backs a cane and bamboo rain shield,...
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Apatanis transplanting paddy in the Apatani valley [electronic resource] English. |
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| Format: | Photo |
| Language: | English |
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[S.l.] :
[s.n.],
1945.
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SOAS Digital Library.
FURER. RSA. PHOTOS. |
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These Apatanis mostly women, with a boy and a young man standing, are transplanting paddy seedlings in rows in the regular plots : In the background, between the fields and the mountains, we can see granaries and a village : a few of the women wear on their their backs a cane and bamboo rain shield, as heavy rain could fall in April and May, when this photograph was taken : the seeds are sown in nursery beds in late February or March, the seedlings are transplanted more than a month later and the crop is harvested in October : Paddy plots are owned by families, who tend them throughout the year, although some of the labour is done by groups : Many of these groups are informal, voluntary arrangements between eight to ten people, mostly women, who work in each other’s fields on a rotating basis : today, we rarely see men working in the paddy fields in this traditional arrangement : Increasingly, groups consist of young men who work for wages during the heavy periods of the agricultural season in the summer months : a few individual men and women, of all ages, also do paid labour throughout the year. |
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| Language: | English |
| Published: |
[S.l.] :
[s.n.],
1945.
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| Subjects: | |
| Series: |
SOAS Digital Library.
FURER. RSA. PHOTOS. |
| Access: |
© 1945, 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. |
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India -- Arunachal Pradesh -- Lower Subansiri District -- Apatani River valley. |