Title:

Paying homage to pir (Iconographic document)

Creator:

Demski, Dagnosław

Place of publishing:

Kotra ; Kutch District ; Gujarat

Date issued/created:

[1992]

Description:

Photography (scan from a slide). The photo shows a group of shepherds kachchi rabari paying homage to the pir. In the foreground you can see the ceremony participants, in the background covered with green cloth fragment tomb of Muslim saint (pir), where occupies a central place 'coffin'. These types of sites with buried bodies is many in Rajasthan and buried there "saints" are given different terms (pir, miyan). They are also characterized by a divine power that comes from the body of the saint, and thus visited by Muslims but also by Hindus

Type of object:

Ethnographic object

Subject and Keywords:

ethnography ; social culture ; social life ; material culture ; Tomb of a Muslim saint (pir) ; Gujarat

Resource type:

Obraz

Detailed Resource Type:

Photography

Format:

image/jpeg

Source:

part 1, box 6, 0011

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