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Search for: [Description = "Photography \(scan from a slide\). Fragment of a tribal feast of Bhils dedicated to the goddess Gauri. The festival lasts for about 40 days and takes place during the rainy season. Every day a group of men from the tribe is dancing in the next village. The culminating celebration in this region takes place on the outskirts of Udaipur and within a few hours of dancing and playing a scene from tribal mythology, the most of them connected with life of a deity Rai Budiya. At the end, after the procession holy figure of the goddess Gauri is thrown into the water. In the picture actors and other participants of the feast are coming in procession surrounding the image of the goddess Gauri on the black elephant. Sculpture of the goddess is dressed in ceremonial robes, and above it appears red roof of canopy"]

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Demski, Dagnosław

[1986]
Ethnographic object

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