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Apatani Women in their Traditional Dress
2022
Banglanatak
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Apatani women are expert weavers and make their own textiles on simple backstrap looms.
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- Title: Apatani Women in their Traditional Dress
- Date Created: 2022
- Contributor: Dept. of Tourism, Govt. of Arunachal Pradesh facilitated the on-ground research.
- Rights: Banglanatak.com, Ambassador's Fund for Cultural Preservation
- About the craft: The Ziro valley of Arunachal Pradesh with its beautiful pine clad lush green hills intersected by the Subansiri river is home to the Apatanis. The valley is famous for gaining a place in the tentative list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites for its unique cultural landscape. Apatani community is a major ethnic group of the eastern Himalayan region with rich cultural traditions.
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