Title:

Rabaris from the southern part of Sindh, Pakistan (Iconographic document)

Creator:

Demski, Dagnosław

Place of publishing:

Badin region ; Badin District ; Sindh ; Pakistan

Date issued/created:

[1992]

Description:

Photography (scan from a slide). The picture shows women and children of rabari. Dressed in traditional clothes - two of them have a long veils (ludi) from stitched squares with geometric patterns with mirrors. Others have a cheap veils madeof artificial fibers in the colors yellow, green, red and blue. Sitting in a cottage, which walls are made of reeds. Rabari from the southern part of the Sindh live in the area from Badina to the Nagar Parkar area. They have common roots with the rabari shepherds living in the District of Kutch. They were separated after the establishment of the border between India and Pakistan. Other Hindus live among the followers of Islam

Type of object:

Ethnographic object

Subject and Keywords:

ethnography ; social culture ; social life ; material culture ; Rabaris from the Sindh ; Pakistan

Resource type:

Obraz

Detailed Resource Type:

Photography

Format:

image/jpeg

Source:

part 1, box 8, 0020

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