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  • Stilt walkers at an Asian street food festival on Brick Lane, London, JUK. Dressed in pink and yellow sari material these women on stilts pose for a picture.
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  • Stilt walkers at an Asian street food festival on Brick Lane, London, JUK. Dressed in pink and yellow sari material these women on stilts pose for a picture.
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  • Stick fishermen otherwise known as stilt fisherman fishing in the Indian Ocean on 17 April 2016 in Sri Lanka. Stilt fishing is a method of fishing unique to Sri Lanka, located off the coast of India in the Indian Ocean. The fishermen sit on a cross bar called a petta tied to a vertical pole and driven into the sand a few meters offshore. From this high position, the fishermen casts his line, and waits until a fish comes along to be caught. Although the approach looks primitive and ancient, stilt fishing is actually a recent tradition believed to have started during World War II when food shortages and overcrowded fishing spots prompted some men to try fishing on the water. Today, many fishermen rent their stilts to “actors” who pose as fishermen for photographers and tourists.
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  • Tommy West, street performer on the walkway dressed as a stilt walking 10 foot high policeman. He jokes with tourists offering them a perfect photo opportunity as they pose as cops and robbers, in handcuffs and mock criminal situations. The South Bank is a significant arts and entertainment district, and home to an endless list of activities for Londoners, visitors and tourists alike.
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  • Tommy West, street performer on the walkway dressed as a stilt walking 10 foot high policeman. He jokes with tourists offering them a perfect photo opportunity as they pose as cops and robbers, in handcuffs and mock criminal situations. The South Bank is a significant arts and entertainment district, and home to an endless list of activities for Londoners, visitors and tourists alike.
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  • Tommy West, street performer on the walkway dressed as a stilt walking 10 foot high policeman. He jokes with tourists offering them a perfect photo opportunity as they pose as cops and robbers, in handcuffs and mock criminal situations. The South Bank is a significant arts and entertainment district, and home to an endless list of activities for Londoners, visitors and tourists alike.
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  • Tommy West, street performer on the walkway dressed as a stilt walking 10 foot high policeman. He jokes with tourists offering them a perfect photo opportunity as they pose as cops and robbers, in handcuffs and mock criminal situations. The South Bank is a significant arts and entertainment district, and home to an endless list of activities for Londoners, visitors and tourists alike.
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  • Tommy West, street performer on the walkway dressed as a stilt walking 10 foot high policeman. He jokes with tourists offering them a perfect photo opportunity as they pose as cops and robbers, in handcuffs and mock criminal situations. The South Bank is a significant arts and entertainment district, and home to an endless list of activities for Londoners, visitors and tourists alike.
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  • Tommy West, street performer on the walkway dressed as a stilt walking 10 foot high policeman. He jokes with tourists offering them a perfect photo opportunity as they pose as cops and robbers, in handcuffs and mock criminal situations. The South Bank is a significant arts and entertainment district, and home to an endless list of activities for Londoners, visitors and tourists alike.
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  • Tommy West, street performer on the walkway dressed as a stilt walking 10 foot high policeman. He jokes with tourists offering them a perfect photo opportunity as they pose as cops and robbers, in handcuffs and mock criminal situations. The South Bank is a significant arts and entertainment district, and home to an endless list of activities for Londoners, visitors and tourists alike.
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  • Tommy West, street performer on the walkway dressed as a stilt walking 10 foot high policeman. He jokes with tourists offering them a perfect photo opportunity as they pose as cops and robbers, in handcuffs and mock criminal situations. The South Bank is a significant arts and entertainment district, and home to an endless list of activities for Londoners, visitors and tourists alike.
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  • Tommy West, street performer on the walkway dressed as a stilt walking 10 foot high policeman. He jokes with tourists offering them a perfect photo opportunity as they pose as cops and robbers, in handcuffs and mock criminal situations. The South Bank is a significant arts and entertainment district, and home to an endless list of activities for Londoners, visitors and tourists alike.
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  • Tommy West, street performer on the walkway dressed as a stilt walking 10 foot high policeman. He jokes with tourists offering them a perfect photo opportunity as they pose as cops and robbers, in handcuffs and mock criminal situations. The South Bank is a significant arts and entertainment district, and home to an endless list of activities for Londoners, visitors and tourists alike.
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  • Neang Char, 32, is a mother-of-four living in Kbal Romeas village, in Steung Treng province in north-eastern Cambodia. The village lies deep in the forest on the Sesan River, and is home to around 130 families from the Bunong ethnic minority group. As well as feeling the impact of climate change on their traditional self-sufficient farming and fishing lifestyle, 5000 people from 20 villages in the area are being evicted from their homes to make way for a controversial huge new hydropower dam, ‘Lower Sesan 2’, which will flood an area of more than 33,000 square hectares. [pictured Bopha, 3 [*name changed] outside the family home in Kbal Romeas village
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  • A pile of bricks in the recently relocated village of Ban Thong Chalern in Sayaboury province, Lao PDR. Ban Thong Chalern consists of three villages (Khmu and Lao Loum) which have been joined together and relocated due to the ongoing construction of the Xayaburi Dam on the Lower Mekong river in Northern Laos.
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  • A man walks down the road carrying his young son in the recently relocated village of Ban Thong Chalern in Sayaboury province, Lao PDR. Ban Thong Chalern consists of three villages (Khmu and Lao Loum) which have been joined together and relocated because of the ongoing construction of the Xayaburi Dam, a major hydroproject on the Lower Mekong in Northern Laos.
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  • Boys playing football in the recently relocated village of Ban Thong Chalern in Sayaboury province, Lao PDR. Ban Thong Chalern consists of three villages (Khmu and Lao Loum) which have been joined together and relocated due to construction of the Xayaburi dam, a major hydropower project on the Mekong river.
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  • The recently relocated village of Ban Thong Chalern in Sayaboury province, Lao PDR. Ban Thong Chalern consists of three villages (Khmu and Lao Loum) which have been joined together due to relocation because of the ongoing construction of the Xayaburi Dam in Northern Laos. The Xayaburi Dam is a hydroelectric dam under construction on the Lower Mekong River approximately 30 kilometres east of Xayaburi town in Northern Laos. The project is surrounded in controversy due to complaints from downstream riparians and environmentalists that the dam would cause significant and irreversible damage to the river's ecosystem. Funded by a Thai company, 90% of the electricity produced by the dam has already been pre-sold to Thailand.
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  • The recently relocated village of Ban Thong Chalern in Sayaboury province, Lao PDR. Ban Thong Chalern consists of three villages (Khmu and Lao Loum) which have been joined together due to relocation because of the ongoing construction of the Xayaburi Dam in Northern Laos. The Xayaburi Dam is a hydroelectric dam under construction on the Lower Mekong River approximately 30 kilometres east of Xayaburi town in Northern Laos. The project is surrounded in controversy due to complaints from downstream riparians and environmentalists that the dam would cause significant and irreversible damage to the river's ecosystem. Funded by a Thai company, 90% of the electricity produced by the dam has already been pre-sold to Thailand.
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  • The recently relocated village of Ban Thong Chalern in Sayaboury province, Lao PDR. Ban Thong Chalern consists of three villages (Khmu and Lao Loum) which have been joined together due to relocation because of the ongoing construction of the Xayaburi Dam in Northern Laos. The Xayaburi Dam is a hydroelectric dam under construction on the Lower Mekong River approximately 30 kilometres east of Xayaburi town in Northern Laos. The project is surrounded in controversy due to complaints from downstream riparians and environmentalists that the dam would cause significant and irreversible damage to the river's ecosystem. Funded by a Thai company, 90% of the electricity produced by the dam has already been pre-sold to Thailand.
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  • Construction of the new village of Ban Sam Sang, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. Four Laoseng ethnic minority villages will be relocated permanently to this new village before the end of 2015 due to the construction of the Nam Ou Cascade Hydropower Project Dam 6.
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  • The construction of the new village of Ban Sam Sang, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. Four Laoseng ethnic minority villages will be relocated permanently to this new village before the end of 2015 due to the construction of the Nam Ou Cascade Hydropower Project Dam 6.
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  • The construction of the new village of Ban Sam Sang, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. Four Laoseng ethnic minority villages will be relocated permanently to this new village before the end of 2015 due to the construction of the Nam Ou Cascade Hydropower Project Dam 6.
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  • The 49th Notting Hill Carnival in West London. A celebration of West Indian / Caribbean culture and Europe's largest street party, festival and parade. Revellers come in their hundreds of thousands to have fun, dance, drink and let go in the brilliant atmosphere. Drumming parade bank on stilts, wearing brightly coloured costumes.
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  • The 49th Notting Hill Carnival in West London. A celebration of West Indian / Caribbean culture and Europe's largest street party, festival and parade. Revellers come in their hundreds of thousands to have fun, dance, drink and let go in the brilliant atmosphere. Drumming parade bank on stilts, wearing brightly coloured costumes.
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  • Kite flying festival, New Delhi, IndiaA boy entertainer on stilts sits on the branches of a tree during a kite flying festival at India Gate, New Delhi India
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  • On the Amazon river and the Rio Negro / black river, there are many small fishing communities that live in houses on stilts, the houses are known as palafitas in Portuguese. Those living there make a modest living from fishing and some work in the city of Manaus. Many of them are only accessible by boat and the houses are flooded for much of the year due to the changing height of the river.
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  • On the Amazon river and the Rio Negro / black river, there are many small fishing communities that live in houses on stilts, the houses are known as palafitas in Portuguese. Those living there make a modest living from fishing and some work in the city of Manaus. Many of them are only accessible by boat and the houses are flooded for much of the year due to the changing height of the river. Here one of the families watces the Brazil vs Mexico World Cup game, even on a modest income, consumer electronics such as plasma TVs are affordable in Brazil.
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  • On the Amazon river and the Rio Negro / black river, there are many small fishing communities that live in houses on stilts, the houses are known as palafitas in Portuguese. Those living there make a modest living from fishing and some work in the city of Manaus. Many of them are only accessible by boat and the houses are flooded for much of the year due to the changing height of the river.
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  • On the Amazon river and the Rio Negro / black river, there are many small fishing communities that live in houses on stilts, the houses are known as palafitas in Portuguese. Those living there make a modest living from fishing and some work in the city of Manaus. Many of them are only accessible by boat and the houses are flooded for much of the year due to the changing height of the river.
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  • On the Amazon river and the Rio Negro / black river, there are many small fishing communities that live in houses on stilts, the houses are known as palafitas in Portuguese. Those living there make a modest living from fishing and some work in the city of Manaus. Many of them are only accessible by boat and the houses are flooded for much of the year due to the changing height of the river.
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  • On the Amazon river and the Rio Negro / black river, there are many small fishing communities that live in houses on stilts, the houses are known as palafitas in Portuguese. Those living there make a modest living from fishing and some work in the city of Manaus. Many of them are only accessible by boat and the houses are flooded for much of the year due to the changing height of the river.
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  • On the Amazon river and the Rio Negro / black river, there are many small fishing communities that live in houses on stilts, the houses are known as palafitas in Portuguese. Those living there make a modest living from fishing and some work in the city of Manaus. Many of them are only accessible by boat and the houses are flooded for much of the year due to the changing height of the river.
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  • On the Amazon river and the Rio Negro / black river, there are many small fishing communities that live in houses on stilts, the houses are known as palafitas in Portuguese. Those living there make a modest living from fishing and some work in the city of Manaus. Many of them are only accessible by boat and the houses are flooded for much of the year due to the changing height of the river.
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  • Photo op with soldiers on stilts, Glastonbury Festival.<br />
Glastonbury Festival is the largest greenfield festival in the world, and is now attended by around 175,000 people. It's a five-day music festival that takes place near Pilton, Somerset, England. In addition to contemporary music, the festival hosts dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret, and other arts. It is organised by Michael Eavis on his own land, Worthy Farm in Pilton. Leading pop and rock artists have headlined, alongside thousands of others appearing on smaller stages and performance areas.
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  • Manaus harbour seen from the water, Rio Negro black river. Manaus is a centre of industry in Brazil, even though it is not accessible by road, it is still the second largest producer of instrial goods in Brazil, after Sao Paulo.
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  • Manaus harbour seen from the water, Rio Negro black river. Manaus is a centre of industry in Brazil, even though it is not accessible by road, it is still the second largest producer of instrial goods in Brazil, after Sao Paulo.
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  • Manaus harbour seen from the water, Rio Negro black river. Manaus is a centre of industry in Brazil, even though it is not accessible by road, it is still the second largest producer of instrial goods in Brazil, after Sao Paulo.
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  • Months after the Millennium, a theatre group perform outside the London Aquarium on the Southbank and beneath a burning flame and the Millennium Wheel later to be renamed The London Eye, on 6th April 2000, on the Southbank, London, England.
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  • Manaus harbour seen from the water, Rio Negro black river. Manaus is a centre of industry in Brazil, even though it is not accessible by road, it is still the second largest producer of instrial goods in Brazil, after Sao Paulo.
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  • The view of the the tree house built by Anni Ravn near Kosta,Sweden, 7th of August 2016. The house is 6 mter up with two bed rooms and an amazing view. It is built 6 meters up ina 300 year old oake all by Anni Ravn, next to her home on the ground. It is wel known in the town of Kosta and is regularly rented out as Air BnB.
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  • Farming villager A Hua, weaving a cloth on a traditional loom, Zha Lu Village, Yunnan Province, China.
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  • The stilt group are discussing if its time to end the blockade or not.<br />
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Crude Oil Awakening is a coalition of climate change activist groups. On Saturday Oct 16 they shut the only entrance to Coryton oil refinery in Essex, UK with the aim of highlighting the issues of climate change and the burning of fossil fuels. The blockade meant that a great number of trucks with oil were not able to leave the refinary during the day of action.
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  • A woman threads her loom at a weaving workshop in Inpawkhone, a village of stilt houses on Inle Lake, Shan State, Myanmar (Burma). The fabric will be woven out of a combination of lotus plant fibres and silk.
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  • An elderly woman spins lotus plant fibre at In Paw Khone, a village of stilt houses on Inle Lake, Shan State, Myanmar (Burma). The thread will be used for making woven textiles out of a combination of lotus plant fibres and silk.  Lotus textiles are one of the most expensive textiles in the world. After picking, the fibres are extracted by pulling out, twisting and handrolling together with water and then spun, washed and woven into fabric, an extremely labour intensive process.
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  • Apatani tribal elder Atta Yadd  and her young neighbours sit have tea and warm up beside the fire after a hard day's work in rice and bamboo fields. They sleep and live in their one roomed "open plan" bamboo made stilted hut, sleeping on mats in the center close to the bamboo fire which is protected by a brick-lined hearth in the village of Hijja, Arunachal Pradesh. The Apatani tribe are one of hundreds of indigenous tribes scattered across India, particularly the north east. Their origins are from Mongolian nomadic tribes whom settled on the Ziro plateau, close to the Chinese border, they practice fixed agriculture as well as forestry, planting trees on the rim of the plateau as well as bamboo forests from which they derive fire wood, building their homes as well as using the bamboo for all manner of applications in their daily lives, cooking utensils and household containers amongst other uses. They carefully cultivate bamboo forests allowing them to grow, but not flower and die, as this would spell disaster for their very own existence. They also tend to their rice fields and live stock for what is mostly a subsistence economy. The Indian constitution recognizes over 500 indigenous tribes, which account for 8.5% of the total population
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  • An Apatani tribal woman walks through the rows of bamboo huts on stilts in the village of Hijja, Arunachal Pradesh. The Apatani tribe are one of hundreds of indigenous tribes scattered across India, particularly the north east. Their origins are from Mongolian nomadic tribes whom settled on the Ziro plateau, close to the Chinese border, they practice fixed agriculture as well as forestry, planting trees on the rim of the plateau as well as bamboo forests from which they derive fire wood, building their homes as well as using the bamboo for all manner of applications in their daily lives, cooking utensils and household containers amongst other uses. They carefully cultivate bamboo forests allowing them to grow, but not flower and die, as this would spell disaster for their very own existence. They also tend to their rice fields and live stock for what is mostly a subsistence economy. The Indian constitution recognizes over 500 indigenous tribes, which account for 8.5% of the total population.
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  • An Apatani tribal man walks through the rows of bamboo huts on stilts in the village of Hijja, Arunachal Pradesh. The Apatani tribe are one of hundreds of indigenous tribes scattered across India, particularly the north east. Their origins are from Mongolian nomadic tribes whom settled on the Ziro plateau, close to the Chinese border, they practice fixed agriculture as well as forestry, planting trees on the rim of the plateau as well as bamboo forests from which they derive fire wood, building their homes as well as using the bamboo for all manner of applications in their daily lives, cooking utensils and household containers amongst other uses. They carefully cultivate bamboo forests allowing them to grow, but not flower and die, as this would spell disaster for their very own existence. They also tend to their rice fields and live stock for what is mostly a subsistence economy. The Indian constitution recognizes over 500 indigenous tribes, which account for 8.5% of the total population.
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  • The Tai Lue are known as experts in cotton cultivation.  After ginning (removing the seeds), the cotton is carded or ‘fluffed’ and then the soft cotton is rolled into straw-like shapes to make it easy to spin, Ban Nayang Tai, Luang Prabang Province, Lao PDR. In Ban Nayang Tai every family has a loom under their stilted home and every family cultivates cotton for weaving into cloth. Girls learn to weave from a young age, having spent years watching and assisting their mothers and female relatives with ginning, spinning and dyeing.
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  • The Tai Lue are known as experts in cotton cultivation.  After ginning (removing the seeds), the cotton is carded or ‘fluffed’ and then the soft cotton is rolled into straw-like shapes to make it easy to spin, Ban Nayang Tai, Luang Prabang Province, Lao PDR. In Ban Nayang Tai every family has a loom under their stilted home and every family cultivates cotton for weaving into cloth. Girls learn to weave from a young age, having spent years watching and assisting their mothers and female relatives with ginning, spinning and dyeing.
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  • Fishing piers using square nets (known as a Carrelet) overlooking the river Gironde estuary at Talmont-sur-Gironde, Charente-Maritime, France. Dotted along the banks of the Gironde Estuary are countless wooden fishing huts which have been built on stilts. Their main implement is a square-shaped pulley-operated net (or “filet carré”) which has given the humble shacks their name: “carrelets”. Talmont-sur-Gironde is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in the Poitou-Charentes region, 5 km (9.3 mi) south of Royan, on a small promontory which dominates the Gironde estuary.
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  • An Apatani tribal man walks through the rows of bamboo huts on stilts in the village of Hijja, Arunachal Pradesh. The Apatani tribe are one of hundreds of indigenous tribes scattered across India, particularly the north east. Their origins are from Mongolian nomadic tribes whom settled on the Ziro plateau, close to the Chinese border, they practice fixed agriculture as well as forestry, planting trees on the rim of the plateau as well as bamboo forests from which they derive fire wood, building their homes as well as using the bamboo for all manner of applications in their daily lives, cooking utensils and household containers amongst other uses. They carefully cultivate bamboo forests allowing them to grow, but not flower and die, as this would spell disaster for their very own existence. They also tend to their rice fields and live stock for what is mostly a subsistence economy. The Indian constitution recognizes over 500 indigenous tribes, which account for 8.5% of the total population.
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  • An Apatani tribal woman walks through the rows of bamboo huts on stilts in the village of Hijja, Arunachal Pradesh. The Apatani tribe are one of hundreds of indigenous tribes scattered across India, particularly the north east. Their origins are from Mongolian nomadic tribes whom settled on the Ziro plateau, close to the Chinese border, they practice fixed agriculture as well as forestry, planting trees on the rim of the plateau as well as bamboo forests from which they derive fire wood, building their homes as well as using the bamboo for all manner of applications in their daily lives, cooking utensils and household containers amongst other uses. They carefully cultivate bamboo forests allowing them to grow, but not flower and die, as this would spell disaster for their very own existence. They also tend to their rice fields and live stock for what is mostly a subsistence economy. The Indian constitution recognizes over 500 indigenous tribes, which account for 8.5% of the total population.
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  • Apatani tribal elders Atta Yadd and her husband Ba Khang wake up in the early morning, freshen up on the raised bamboo platform of  their one roomed "open plan" bamboo made stilted hut, sleeping on mats in the center close to the bamboo fire which is protected by a brick-lined hearth in the village of Hijja, Arunachal Pradesh. The Apatani tribe are one of hundreds of indigenous tribes scattered across India, particularly the north east. Their origins are from Mongolian nomadic tribes whom settled on the Ziro plateau, close to the Chinese border, they practice fixed agriculture as well as forestry, planting trees on the rim of the plateau as well as bamboo forests from which they derive fire wood, building their homes as well as using the bamboo for all manner of applications in their daily lives, cooking utensils and household containers amongst other uses. They carefully cultivate bamboo forests allowing them to grow, but not flower and die, as this would spell disaster for their very own existence. They also tend to their rice fields and live stock for what is mostly a subsistence economy. The Indian constitution recognizes over 500 indigenous tribes, which account for 8.5% of the total population
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  • Apatani tribal elders Atta Yadd and her husband Ba Khang wake up in the early morning, freshen up on the raised bamboo platform of  their one roomed "open plan" bamboo made stilted hut, sleeping on mats in the center close to the bamboo fire which is protected by a brick-lined hearth in the village of Hijja, Arunachal Pradesh. The Apatani tribe are one of hundreds of indigenous tribes scattered across India, particularly the north east. Their origins are from Mongolian nomadic tribes whom settled on the Ziro plateau, close to the Chinese border, they practice fixed agriculture as well as forestry, planting trees on the rim of the plateau as well as bamboo forests from which they derive fire wood, building their homes as well as using the bamboo for all manner of applications in their daily lives, cooking utensils and household containers amongst other uses. They carefully cultivate bamboo forests allowing them to grow, but not flower and die, as this would spell disaster for their very own existence. They also tend to their rice fields and live stock for what is mostly a subsistence economy. The Indian constitution recognizes over 500 indigenous tribes, which account for 8.5% of the total population
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