Apatani shaman during a ritual procession

This man is Nada Bida, a shaman, wearing the distinctive costume of that specialist : He holds a ritual fan, made of hornbill feathers, with a cane-work handle, and he wears a necklace of expensive conch-shell beads, large hoop earrings and a woven headdress : From one end of the metal skewer throug...

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Full title: Apatani shaman during a ritual procession [electronic resource] English.
Format: Photo           
Language: English
Published: [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1945.
Series: SOAS Digital Library.
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