Apatani woman pouring rice beer and rice powder on a sacrificial chicken

Each year Apatanis celebrate the Myoko festival (late March to mid-April), in which a pig sacrifice is the main event : In the village or set of villages, that is playing host that year, each clan sets up a special altar on the left, of bamboo poles and shavings near a tree : Each family in the clan...

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Full title: Apatani woman pouring rice beer and rice powder on a sacrificial chicken [electronic resource] English.
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Language: English
Published: [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1978.
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024 7 |a PP MS 19/6/APA/0837  |2 SOAS manuscript number 
024 7 |a B 701_8A-9_Apa Tani 1978, H 27  |2 Haimendorf reference 
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245 0 0 |a Apatani woman pouring rice beer and rice powder on a sacrificial chicken  |h [electronic resource]  |y English. 
260 |a [S.l.] :  |b [s.n.],  |c 1978. 
500 |a This item is protected by copyright. Please use in accord with Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC). High resolution digital master available from SOAS, University of London - the Digital Library Project Office. 
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500 |a Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf (1909-1995) was born and educated in Vienna, gaining a PhD in anthropology from the University of Vienna in 1931. A grant from the Rockefeller Foundation enabled him to study at the London School of Economics, under the anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski. In 1936, he went to the Naga Hills in northeast India for his first fieldwork; over the next four decades, he worked extensively in south & central India, northeast India and Nepal. In 1950 he was appointed Professor of Anthropology at SOAS, where he established the Department of Anthropology. During his career, he published seventeen books, most of them ethnographies of tribal cultures. He was President of the Royal Anthropological Institute (1975-77) and a pioneer in the field of visual anthropology. 
500 |a This scene was photographed on or approximate to 19780301 
500 |a Other designation of photograph: B 701/8A-9/Apa Tani 1978 H 27 
500 |a Original Container: BW Negatives Box III 
500 |a Haimendorf's reference: B 701_8A-9_Apa Tani 1978, H 27 
500 |a BW Negatives Box III 
500 |a Funded in the United Kingdom by JISC 
500 |a SOAS name authority for "Haimendorf, Christoph Von Fürer- (1909-1995); anthropologist" is GB/NNAF/P146323. 
500 |a VIAF (name authority) : Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph von, 1909-1995 : record number 109123273 
506 |a © 1978, 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. 
520 3 |a Each year Apatanis celebrate the Myoko festival (late March to mid-April), in which a pig sacrifice is the main event : In the village or set of villages, that is playing host that year, each clan sets up a special altar on the left, of bamboo poles and shavings near a tree : Each family in the clan then brings a specially reared pig to the altar where it is decorated with rice powder and rice beer : after a shaman chants over each animal as we see here, a few are killed on the spot, but most are taken home to be cut up : the blood from the Myoko pig is later mixed with rice and served in a feast : Only when a new bride eats that meal is she considered formally part of her husband's clan : the shaman seen here wears a special shawl, large hoop earrings and a textile headdress, and he carries a bow, which he points toward the pig : He stands on a special piece of wood : Very little of what we see in this photograph would differ from what we see today. 
533 |a Electronic reproduction.  |b London :  |c SOAS, University of London,  |c Archives and Special Collections,  |d 2015.  |f (SOAS Digital Library)  |n Mode of access: World Wide Web.  |n System requirements: Internet connectivity; Web browser software. 
535 1 |a Archives and Special Collections. 
650 |a Myoko festival. 
650 0 |a Animal sacrifice. 
650 0 |a Chickens. 
650 0 |a Festivals. 
650 0 |a Festivals. 
650 0 |a Rice beer. 
650 |a Madhu (beverage). 
650 0 |a Beer. 
650 |a पशु बलि. 
650 |a मुर्गी. 
650 |a उत्सव. 
650 |a उत्सव. 
650 |a चावल बीयर. 
650 |a मधु (पेय). 
650 |a बियर. 
650 0 |a Apatani (Indic people). 
650 |a एशिया -- भारत -- अरुणाचल प्रदेश -- निचली सुबनसिरी जिला -- अपतानी नदी घाटी. 
655 7 |a Apatani  |2 ethnicity 
655 7 |a अपतानी जनजाति  |2 ethnicity 
720 1 |a Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph von, 1909-1995.  |4 pht 
720 1 |a Furer-Haimendorf, Christoph von, 1909-1995.  |4 ctb 
720 1 |a Haimendorf, Christoph Von Fürer- (1909-1995); anthropologist.  |4 ctb 
752 |a India  |b Arunachal Pradesh  |c Lower Subansiri District  |g Apatani River valley. 
830 0 |a SOAS Digital Library. 
830 0 |a FURER. 
830 0 |a RSA. 
830 0 |a PHOTOS. 
852 |a SOAS 
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