From the archive record
In Hari Village in Ziro Valley, one of the more prosperous villages of the valley has seen transformations in the last 5 years. Traditional bamboo houses have given way to more modern concrete houses. But most of the nature loving Apatanis have retained the traditional feel of the houses yet adapted to the comforts of modernity. Apatani women carry out the household chores of gathering both wild and kitchen garden vegetables, cooking, fetching water, pounding rice, cleaning houses, washing clothes and utensils, nursing, looking after infants and children, ginning (clothes) and spinning of cotton, and other jobs associated with the household. In the field, the Apatani woman carries out the tasks that include gardening, seeding, transplanting of paddy and millet, weeding of fields, and other