Building an Apatani house
This is probably the house that was built for Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf and his wife, Betty, a few days after their arrival in the Apatani valley : Apatani houses are built using hardwood poles and posts, bamboo floors and railings, and walls of flattened bamboo : Roofs consisted of thatch ove...
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Building an Apatani house [electronic resource] English. |
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| Format: | Photo |
| Language: | English |
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[S.l.] :
[s.n.],
1944.
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SOAS Digital Library.
FURER. RSA. PHOTOS. |
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| Summary: |
This is probably the house that was built for Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf and his wife, Betty, a few days after their arrival in the Apatani valley : Apatani houses are built using hardwood poles and posts, bamboo floors and railings, and walls of flattened bamboo : Roofs consisted of thatch over flattened bamboo : as Fürer-Haimendorf discovered, Apatanis live in nuclear families, in narrow houses approx : 12 x 4 metres, and in compact villages, in order to use every square metre of land for wet-rice agriculture : When he complained that the house looked too narrow, he was told by his hosts that they only knew how to build narrow houses : Length, on the other hand, was up to him : thatch for the roof was abandoned by the 1970s, and since the 1990s corrugated iron sheeting has been preferred : another change is that houses are now only about 1 metre above ground, while in the 1940s they were raised up higher : Wooden or concrete steps have been substituted for the notched wooden board leading to the front porch : In other essentials, however, Apatani houses today look like those seen in this photograph. |
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| Language: | English |
| Published: |
[S.l.] :
[s.n.],
1944.
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| Subjects: | |
| Series: |
SOAS Digital Library.
FURER. RSA. PHOTOS. |
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© 1944, 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. |