Title:

Paying homage to the pir (Iconographic document)

Creator:

Demski, Dagnosław

Place of publishing:

Kotra ; Kutch District ; Gudjarat

Date issued/created:

[1992]

Description:

Photography (scan from a slide). The picture shows a group of shepherds kachchi rabari participating in a ceremony in honor of pir from the tomb of the Muslim saint (pir) located a short distance from the village. In the foreground you can see three women with children. Dressed in traditional costumes - black skirts, colorful blouses and long black wool veils (ludi) patterned in red dots. On the back you will see men and children sitting around a tomb. The elders are dressed in white, some of them wearing turbans in purple-black color and others in white. This is a sign that the holiday attracts shepherds kachchi and dheberiya rabari. These types of sites with buried bodies is many in Rajasthan, and buried there "saints" are given different terms (pir, miyan). They are the places marked by the divine power flowing from the body of the saint, and thus visited by Muslims, but also by the followers of Hinduism

Type of object:

Ethnographic object

Subject and Keywords:

ethnography ; social culture ; social life ; material culture ; married couple ; tomb of a Muslim saint (pir) ; Gujarat

Resource type:

Obraz

Detailed Resource Type:

Photography

Format:

image/jpeg

Source:

part 2, box 2, 0069

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