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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Full title: Apatanis transplanting paddy in the Apatani valley [electronic resource] English.
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Language: English
Published: [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1945.
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Summary: 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.
Language: English
Published: [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1945.
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.
Place of Publication: India -- Arunachal Pradesh -- Lower Subansiri District -- Apatani River valley.