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 typical clothes of kachchi rabari group sitting at the shrine. On the wall are the trident red marks and dots. Picture has been taken during the feast of Vachchada Dada. It takes place it in middle of the day, and not, as other after the dusk. Participants gather around the shrine lying in the field - men sit on the shrine, sing and play, and women sitting on the ground. It is is also an opportunity to give first names to children who were born in during the year. During the of 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 to give children 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 14, 0010

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