Craftsmanship of the Yobin (Lisu) community of Arunachal Pradesh

Brief description

The Lisu (Yobin) community of Arunachal Pradesh is well known for their people's skilled craftmanship using cane, bamboo, woods and other forest products. However, this highly skilled artistic knowledge is no longer passed down from parents to their children as almost all Lisu children move out of their villages in order to pursue formal education. For related materials, please see Jothisey Yobin's CCLD12 collection: https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/CCLD12 In this project, Jothisey Yobin, a Lisu (Yobin) community member, has collected hundreds of images and nearly seven hours of audio-visual texts relating to the extraordinary traditional craftsmanship of Lisu-speaking people in India, transcribed and translated into English. Audio-visual recordings have been made of Lisu people weaving baskets and mats, making crossbows and fishing rods, etc. In addition to demonstrating the expertise and virtuosity of Lisu craftspeople, Jothisey’s project is one of the first to publicise the existence, resilience and unique history and present of this little-known Indigenous group of Arunachal Pradesh. This project was mentored by Zilpha Modi, and funded by a 2022 FLICR Fellowship awarded to the collector by the Centre for Cultural-Linguistic Diversity (Eastern Himalaya) (Co-Directors Mark W. Post and Yankee Modi, Associate Directors Kellen Parker Van Dam and Zilpha Modi, https://ccld-eh.org). Financial support for the 2022 FLICR Fellowship program was provided by the Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Research, through a grant administered by the University of Sydney. All files in this collection are open-access, and may be used freely with acknowledgement.