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Title: Rite of Vachchada Dada, kachchi rabari (Iconographic document)

Creator:

Demski, Dagnosław

Date issued/created:

[1992]

Resource type:

Obraz

Place of publishing:

Kotra ; Kutch District ; Gudjarat

Description:

Photography (scan from a slide). The image shows a dozen men, participants of feast of Vachchada dada. It takes place in a small temple dedicated to the deity and built in the field near the village of Kotra. Once a year, one of the lineages of the shepherds kachchi rabari organize this ritual, giving the names of all children born within a year of the previous ceremony. Guests at the wedding ceremony kachchi rabari. Ritual differently than all other nightlife is done during the day (Kartik Sud, first Monday). Participants are dressed in festive clothes traditionally in white, turbans on their heads are in purple-black color in patterns - a sign of belonging to a group kachchi rabari. Men are singing religious songs

Type of object:

Ethnographic object

Detailed Resource Type:

Photography

Format:

image/jpeg

Resource Identifier:

oai:rcin.org.pl:43478

Source:

part 2, box 2, 0074

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

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