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Rain sacrifice in Arunachal Pradesh, India. The shaman walks down the labrang (raised platform of the Apatani people), and continues through the village. All along, he chants his incantations. All hunched over, he walks through the village with the sacrificed chicks and scatters the entrails after reading them, to tell the fortunes of the village and the likelihood of rainfall. A 108 year old man (purportedly that old and supposedly a shaman) conducts a rain sacrifice ceremony to bring rainfall to the village of Ziro in Arunachal Pradesh, India. He uses age-old chants to exhort the rain gods to let forth their bounty... After we had filmed this on Digital Betacam (with a film look) in Arunachal in 1998, we subsequently showed this footage to two fellow village boys from Ziro village, in 20
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