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Rare images showing rituals, festivals and everyday life for isolated tribes in the Himalayas are to be preserved online from today by JISC and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) for the benefit of researchers, teachers and students.
Highlights among the 10,000 images include rich textiles and jewellery of the Nagas and the shaman-led rituals and acrobatics of the Apatani tribe.
Browse and download the images here
These extraordinary moments were photographed by a professor of anthropology at SOAS, Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf (1909-1995), who studied tribal cultures in South Asia and the Himalayas from the 1930’s to the 1980’s.
His photographic collection consists of more than 20,000 images of which approximately half, from India and Nepal, are now online for people to browse, download and use non-commercially free of charge.
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