Apatani war dance
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Title:
Apatani war dance
Creator:
Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph von, 1909-1995 ( Photographer )
Furer-Haimendorf, Christoph von, 1909-1995 ( contributor )
Haimendorf, Christoph Von Fürer- (1909-1995); anthropologist ( contributor )
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[S.l.]
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Language:
English
Materials:
Photographic film: 35mm B&W negative, Eastman Kodak : Super XX ( medium )

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Abstract:
These Apatani men are performing a dance just before they set out, with Assam Rifles, to attack the Nyishis of Licha : they carry spears and shields, brandish their machetes and wear shoulder armour of blackened sago palm fibres : Several also carry bamboo tubes of cooked rice on their backs : Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf, who accompanied them on the raid, described the dance in his diary: 'When I woke up this morning at 4-30 am I heard the chanting of Chige Nime a shaman :, interrupted now and then by shrill cries, followed by a humming sound, which at first I took for the noise of swarming bees : But when dawn came, I realized that this was produced by the young Apa Tani warriors and that close to the place where Nime was singing a sacrificial monument of bamboo and leaves had been erected.' A few minutes later, a dog was sacrificed and the war party set out from the Apatani valley toward the Kiyi River valley, to the west. ( en )
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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.
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This scene was photographed on or approximate to 19441213
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Other designation of photograph: 175/9/Apa Tanis DutaBage Llich
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Original Container: BW Negatives Box III
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For descriptive reference, see: PP MS 19, Diary, p. 60; For descriptive reference, see: Fürer-Haimendorf, Christophe von. 1955. , photograph facing p. 114
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Haimendorf's reference: 175_9_Apa Tanis, Duta-Bage Llich
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BW Negatives Box III
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Funded in the United Kingdom by JISC
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SOAS name authority for "Haimendorf, Christoph Von Fürer- (1909-1995); anthropologist" is GB/NNAF/P146323.
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VIAF (name authority) : Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph von, 1909-1995 : record number 109123273

Record Information

Source Institution:
SOAS, University of London
Holding Location:
Archives and Special Collections
Rights Management:
© 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.
Resource Identifier:
PP MS 19/6/APA/0530 ( SOAS manuscript number )
175_9_Apa Tanis, Duta-Bage Llich ( Haimendorf reference )