Apatani clay models

Purpose of these Apatani clay models is unclear : that they represent mithun skulls, however, is not surprising given the significance of that animal to local culture and the practice of displaying skulls in the house of a sponsor of a large feast : as Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf remarked, in co...

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Full title: Apatani clay models [electronic resource] English.
Format: Photo           
Language: English
Published: [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1944.
Series: SOAS Digital Library.
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