Apatani woman pouring rice beer 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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Apatani woman pouring rice beer on a sacrificial chicken [electronic resource] English. |
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| Format: | Photo |
| Language: | English |
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[S.l.] :
[s.n.],
1978.
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SOAS Digital Library.
FURER. RSA. PHOTOS. |
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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. |
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| Language: | English |
| Published: |
[S.l.] :
[s.n.],
1978.
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| Subjects: | |
| Series: |
SOAS Digital Library.
FURER. RSA. PHOTOS. |
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© 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. |
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India -- Arunachal Pradesh -- Lower Subansiri District -- Apatani River valley. |