Title:

Kumbha Mela (Iconographic document)

Creator:

Demski, Dagnosław

Place of publishing:

Allahabad ; Allahabad District ; Uttar Pradesh

Date issued/created:

[1989]

Description:

Photography (scan from a slide). The views from Kumbha Mela. In the foreground you can see the head of pilgrims gathered during the procession of ascetics to waters of the Ganges and Yamuna. This is done during the Kumbha Mela that take place in Allahabad every 12 years (after 6 years is done so called. Semi-mela). This is the most numerous festival in northern India, and Allahabad uniqueness lies in the fact that it lies at the point where the Yamuna flows into the Ganges. Place of merging the waters, and precisely place can be seen by the different colors of both water - is considered particularly auspicious for bathing during the Kumbha mela

Type of object:

Ethnographic object

Subject and Keywords:

ethnography ; social culture ; social life ; material culture ; Kumbha Mela festival ; Allahabad (India)

Resource type:

Obraz

Detailed Resource Type:

Photography

Format:

text/html

Source:

part 1, box 12, 0006

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

Access:

Open