Title:

Village shrine, Rajasthan (Iconographic document)

Creator:

Demski, Dagnosław

Place of publishing:

Kolu Pabuji ; Jodhpur District ; Rajasthan

Date issued/created:

[1994]

Description:

Photography (scan from a slide). In the picture you see a small shrine situated in Pabuji near the main shrine dedicated to the god Pabuji. At the stone shelter there are two bas-reliefs - a camel rider and the female form. Around graze a herd of camels. In the village of Kolu Pabuji was born one of the ancestors of the Rajput family Rathor and one of the heroes of epic poems and songs of the western part of India. Songs about Pabuji Rathor are sung besides the Rajput by shepherds and some lower castes related cultural and economic with Rajput

Type of object:

Ethnographic object

Subject and Keywords:

ethnography ; social culture ; social life ; material culture ; Village shrine ; Rajasthan

Resource type:

Obraz

Detailed Resource Type:

Photography

Format:

image/jpeg

Source:

part 1, box 8, 0009

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