Apatani houses and ritual poles
As this photograph shows, Apatanis live in compact villages and narrow houses approx : 12 x 4 metres and owned by nuclear families, in order to use every square metre of land for wet-rice agriculture : Front and back porches, however, double the living and working space, and provide a public viewing...
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Apatani houses and ritual poles [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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| Summary: |
As this photograph shows, Apatanis live in compact villages and narrow houses approx : 12 x 4 metres and owned by nuclear families, in order to use every square metre of land for wet-rice agriculture : Front and back porches, however, double the living and working space, and provide a public viewing gallery : We also see here a number of poles erected during the Myoko festival : Each ritual platform in a village has a pole approximately 15-20 metres high : the pole in the foreground appears to be one of these, although the ritual platform has been moved : Shorter poles in the background, are also put up near or on the porch of each house in which a boy has been born in the last three years, when the village last hosted the festival. |
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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. |
| Place of Publication: |
India -- Arunachal Pradesh -- Lower Subansiri District -- Apatani River valley. |