Title:

Kachchi rabari wedding (Iconographic document)

Creator:

Demski, Dagnosław

Place of publishing:

Bhuj ; Kutch District ; Gudjarat

Date issued/created:

[1992]

Description:

Photography (scan from a slide). Guests at the kachchi rabari wedding ceremony. Guests are dressed in festive clothes, women in characteristic long black veils with red dots. Young women wearing jewelry, indicating their status as married women. An older woman wears veil without dots, she is probably a widow. Men are also festively dressed, traditionally in white, the black and purple turban with pattern - a sign of belonging to a kachchi rabari group. The picture also shows the wedding 'pillars' stacked with copper pots. This are Hindu ceremonial items

Type of object:

Ethnographic object

Subject and Keywords:

ethnography ; social culture ; social life ; material culture ; kachchi rabari wedding

Resource type:

Obraz

Detailed Resource Type:

Photography

Format:

image/jpeg

Source:

part 1, box 1, 0020

Rights:

Rights Reserved - Restricted Access

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. Access only on terminals at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 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:

Closed