Young Apatani woman on the steps to a porch
This young Apatani woman is standing on the steps to a house porch : She wears the large hoop earrings, high hair knot, coarse cotton skirt and thick set of necklaces that were popular at the time but went out of fashion by the early 1960s : By that time, too, most women her age would wear a top gar...
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Young Apatani woman on the steps to a porch [electronic resource] English. |
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| Format: | Photo |
| Language: | English |
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[S.l.] :
[s.n.],
1944.
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SOAS Digital Library.
FURER. RSA. PHOTOS. |
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This young Apatani woman is standing on the steps to a house porch : She wears the large hoop earrings, high hair knot, coarse cotton skirt and thick set of necklaces that were popular at the time but went out of fashion by the early 1960s : By that time, too, most women her age would wear a top garment, if only a shawl : She also has traditional facial tattoos and nose plugs : Young girls were tattooed and wooden plugs were placed in girls' nostrils : at age five or six, tattoo lines were made by pricking the skin with thorns and then rubbing in a mixture of coal black and cooking oil : One line was drawn from forehead to the tip of the nose, and another five on the chin : about the same age, a young girl's nostrils were pierced and wooden pins inserted : a few years later, when the hole was large enough, wooden plugs, also blackened with soot and oil, were inserted : In 1974, the Apatani Youth Association demanded that these practices be abandoned, and today tattoos and nose plugs are only seen on women above 35-40 years of age. |
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| Language: | English |
| Published: |
[S.l.] :
[s.n.],
1944.
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| Subjects: | |
| Series: |
SOAS Digital Library.
FURER. RSA. PHOTOS. |
| Access: |
© 1944, 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. |