Houses and porches in an Apatani village
This is one of nine villages (probably Hija) in the Apatani valley in the 1940s. Apatanis live in nuclear families, narrow houses (approx. 12 x 4 metres) and compact villages in order to use every square metre of land for wet-rice agriculture. Porches, front and back, extend the living and working a...
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Houses and porches in an Apatani village [electronic resource] English. |
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| Format: | Photo |
| Language: | English |
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[S.l.] :
[s.n.],
1945.
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SOAS Digital Library.
FURER. RSA. PHOTOS. |
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This is one of nine villages (probably Hija) in the Apatani valley in the 1940s. Apatanis live in nuclear families, narrow houses (approx. 12 x 4 metres) and compact villages in order to use every square metre of land for wet-rice agriculture. Porches, front and back, extend the living and working area, as we can see in this photograph. The type of roof shown here, thatch on top of split and flattened bamboo, was replaced by fully bamboo roofs (more fire-resistant and water-tight) in the 1970s. 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 higher. Wooden or concrete steps have been substituted for the flat wooden board leading to the front porch. In other essentials, however, Apatani houses today look like those seen here. |
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| Language: | English |
| Published: |
[S.l.] :
[s.n.],
1945.
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| Subjects: | |
| Series: |
SOAS Digital Library.
FURER. RSA. PHOTOS. |
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© 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. |
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India -- Arunachal Pradesh -- Lower Subansiri District -- Apatani River valley. |