Title:

Portrait of women and children,kachchi rabari (Iconographic document)

Creator:

Demski, Dagnosław

Place of publishing:

Sanosara ; Kutch District ; Gujarat

Date issued/created:

[1994]

Description:

Photography (scan from a slide). Portrait of women and children in the village inhabited by Kachchi rabari. Woman standing with younger siblings on their hands. Women dressed in traditional clothes - long black wool veil (ludi) on her head and a green jacket (kapadu) and black or colored skirts. Girls aged about 15 years dressed in typical clothes for local shepherds - green jacket and skirt. The characteristic silver necklaces in girls and children (silver siyal and gold hairi) indicate the status of espousal girls

Type of object:

Ethnographic object

Subject and Keywords:

ethnography ; social culture ; social life ; material culture ; portrait of women and children ; kachchi rabari

Resource type:

Obraz

Detailed Resource Type:

Photography

Format:

image/jpeg

Source:

part 1, box 11, 0057

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