Title:

Young couple and brahmin - kachchi rabari wedding (Iconographic document)

Creator:

Demski, Dagnosław

Place of publishing:

Kutch District ; Gudjarat

Date issued/created:

[1992]

Description:

Photography (scan from a slide). In the picture the groom, the bride, the Brahmin and the wedding guests. Young couple standing in front of a priest who receives the ceremony. The groom dressed in an ornate King (Raja) clothes and a sword in his right hand. The bride with a colored veil concealing her face during the ceremony and the 'crown'. In front of them is a young Brahmin caste Rajgor – he belongs to the lower strata of the Brahmin varna - celebrates the wedding rituals in kachchi rabari. Guests are dressed in festive clothes - here you can see a woman's head in a long black veil, as well as a piece of white dressed man

Type of object:

Ethnographic object

Subject and Keywords:

ethnography ; social culture ; social life ; material culture ; kachchi rabari wedding ; young couple and Brahmin

Resource type:

Obraz

Detailed Resource Type:

Photography

Format:

image/jpeg

Source:

part 1, box 1, 0030

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