Apatani men sitting on a ritual platform
These Apatani men are sitting on a ritual platform, probably on a sunny day in November : they wear their hair in the traditional style knot with a skewer, and they wear also the traditional cane belt, visible on the man to the right : a ritual platform consists of hardwood planks raised up on thick...
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Apatani men sitting on a ritual platform [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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These Apatani men are sitting on a ritual platform, probably on a sunny day in November : they wear their hair in the traditional style knot with a skewer, and they wear also the traditional cane belt, visible on the man to the right : a ritual platform consists of hardwood planks raised up on thick wooden posts : Each of the many Apatani clans owns or owns jointly with other clans, their own platform which is situated in its quarter of a village : as a rare public space in these densely populated villages, it is used primarily for ritual events, especially the Murung (Feast of Merit) festival : today, the wood is being replaced by concrete slabs and posts : In this photograph, we also see the tall babo pole, the thickest of them visible, in the background : approximately 15-20 metres tall, these poles are erected on or near a ritual platform in the village playing host to other villages during the Myoko festival : Smaller poles are also put up on the porch of every house in which a boy was born in the three years since that village last hosted the festival : the bamboo and thatch piled on the platform suggests that the roof a house is being re-thatched. |
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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. |