Apatani shaman inside a house

On the left an Apatani shaman is chanting on the first day of the month-long Myoko festival : He wears a special shawl, textile headdress and chains of metal beads hanging from the skewer in his hair knot, which mark him as a shaman : the bands of cane he wears below his knee used to be common among...

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Full title: Apatani shaman inside a house [electronic resource] English.
Format: Photo           
Language: English
Published: [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1978.
Series: SOAS Digital Library.
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