Title:

Tomb of Muslim saint (pir) (Iconographic document)

Creator:

Demski, Dagnosław

Place of publishing:

Udaipur ; Udaipur District ; Rajasthan

Date issued/created:

[1986]

Description:

Photography (scan from a slide). Dressed in white men and women are the guardians of the tomb of a Muslim saint. They are standing in front of the tomb, in which a central place occupies 'coffin' decked in green materials. On the back sits an elderly man with a gray beard. 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 Muslim saint (pir) ; Rajasthan

Resource type:

Obraz

Detailed Resource Type:

Photography

Format:

image/jpeg

Source:

part 1, box 13, 0001

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