Apatani phallic play
These young Apatani men are playing with a bamboo pole cut and shaved to look like a penis the shavings on top are known, by a local euphemism, as the ‘vagina’, : this phallic play is part of a three-week long Apatani feast Murung (Feast of Merit), which involves mithun and cow sacrifice, and comple...
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Apatani phallic play [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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