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Title: Gauri Dance, Bhils (Iconographic document)

Creator:

Demski, Dagnosław

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Place of publishing:

Udaipur ; Udaipur District ; Rajasthan

Description:

Photography (scan from a slide). Fragment of a tribal feast of Bhils dedicated to the goddess Gauri. The festival lasts for about 40 days and takes place during the rainy season. Every day a group of men from the tribe is dancing in the next village. The culminating celebration in this region takes place on the outskirts of Udaipur and within a few hours of dancing and playing a scene from tribal mythology, the most of them connected with life of a deity Rai Budiya. At the end, after the procession holy figure of the goddess Gauri is thrown into the water. In the picture you can see the image of the goddess Gauri on the black elephant. Sculpture of the goddess is dressed in ceremonial robes, and above it appears red roof of canopy. During the procession the figure of the goddess is carried by men, and the view of its causes respect and devotion. One of the men is fanning her with broom made of white hair

Type of object:

Ethnographic object

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Resource Identifier:

oai:rcin.org.pl:43877

Source:

part 2, box 1, 0019

Rights:

Rights Reserved - Free Access

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. May be used within the limits of statutory user freedoms

Digitizing institution:

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Projects co-financed by:

Programme Innovative Economy, 2010-2014, Priority Axis 2. R&D infrastructure ; European Union. European Regional Development Fund

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Subject and keywords:

ethnography social culture social life material culture the image of the goddess Gauri Gauri Dance Bhils Rajasthan South Asia (India, Pakistan)

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Last modified:

Oct 27, 2022

In our library since:

Apr 28, 2014

Number of object content downloads / hits:

25

All available object's versions:

https://rcin.org.pl./publication/55887

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Obrazy Indii i Pakistanu

Edition name	Date
Demski, Dagnosław, [1986], Święto Gauri, Bhilowie (Dokument ikonograficzny)	Oct 27, 2022

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