Title:

Rite of Vachchada Dada, kachchi rabari (Iconographic document)

Creator:

Demski, Dagnosław

Place of publishing:

Sanosara ; Kutch District ; Gudjarat

Date issued/created:

[1992]

Description:

Photography (scan from a slide). Men dressed in characteristic clothes of shepherds rabari from the group of kachchi are sitting at the small shrine. Picture was taken during the feast of Vachchada Dada. It takes place it middle of the day, and not, as other at the dusk. Participants gather around shrines lying down in the field - men sit on shrines, they sing and play, and the women are sitting on a the ground. It is also an opportunity to give names to children who were born during the year. During this ceremony one of the helpers is taking another baby on the hands, and the bhopa, a type of the medium in the red turban, falls into a trance and is suitable children to names

Type of object:

Ethnographic object

Subject and Keywords:

ethnography ; social culture ; social life ; material culture ; rite of Vachchada Dada ; kachchi rabari

Resource type:

Obraz

Detailed Resource Type:

Photography

Format:

image/jpeg

Source:

part 1, box 12, 0015

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