The Other Side Northeast
3rd – 7th century CE · Northeast

Manipur valley

Archaeological evidence of settlement rather than royal chronicle. The strongest labour evidence on the site, and the weakest architecture.

Written
Cutting weed from the floating beds continuity
Cutting weed from the floating beds
Read backwards from living Loktak practice; the technique is not excavated.
Fisher / lake worker Cultivator
Reconstruction — drawn, not photographed
Alone on the phumdi continuity
Alone on the phumdi
Caption pending: what it shows, what it proves, where it stops.
Fisher / lake worker
Reconstruction — drawn, not photographed
Bringing the load in continuity
Bringing the load in
Caption pending: what it shows, what it proves, where it stops.
Fisher / lake worker
Reconstruction — drawn, not photographed
At the loom inferred
At the loom
Drawn as a frame loom; the valley evidence points to a loin loom. Flagged, not corrected.
Weaver
Reconstruction — drawn, not photographed
Maibi at the rite continuity
Maibi at the rite
Caption pending: what it shows, what it proves, where it stops.
Ritual specialist
Reconstruction — drawn, not photographed
Maibi speaking continuity
Maibi speaking
Caption pending: what it shows, what it proves, where it stops.
Ritual specialist
Reconstruction — drawn, not photographed
Maibi in trance continuity
Maibi in trance
Caption pending: what it shows, what it proves, where it stops.
Ritual specialist
Reconstruction — drawn, not photographed

Plates are drawn reconstructions unless a collection is named. Standing flags on the illustrations are declared on the method page.

Sources

Numbered against the plates above. Where a plate is a reconstruction rather than a photograph, the note says what the drawing was built from.

—Sources for this era are being compiled. Each plate above will carry a numbered footnote to a specific work once they are in.
Earlier
Vākāṭaka
Later
Gupta