Title:

Interior of a cottage, kachchi rabari (Iconographic document)

Creator:

Demski, Dagnosław

Place of publishing:

Tunda Wandh ; Kutch District ; Gujarat

Date issued/created:

[1986]

Description:

Photography (scan from a slide). Fragment of interior of rural hut (bhunga) with elements of its furniture. Type of 'box' (kotlo) for storing various types of materials (e.g., grain). It is built of clay, and from the outside adorned with mirrors. Cottage are built on a circular plan with a wooden pin posed in the middle. The walls are built of clay and thatch roof. Before the entrance to the hut is threshing floor, a place where locals cook, eat and spend time. In the past, the shepherds rabari built their settlements outside the village

Type of object:

Ethnographic object

Subject and Keywords:

ethnography ; social culture ; social life ; material culture ; rural architecture ; kachchi rabari shepherds ; furniture

Resource type:

Obraz

Detailed Resource Type:

Photography

Format:

image/jpeg

Source:

part 2, box 2, 0010

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