Gauri Dance, Bhils (Iconographic document) - Demski, Dagnosław (1986)
Photography (scan from a slide). Fragment of a tribal feast of Bhils dedicated to the goddess Gauri. Festival lasts for about 40 days and takes place during the rainy season. Every day a group of men from the tribe dancing in the next village. Culminating holiday in this region is in the suburbs of Udaipur and there are a few hours of dancing and playing a scene from tribal mythology, most of them connected with life of a deity Rai Budiya. At the end of the procession holy figure of the goddess Gauri is thrown into the water. In the picture the actors after the ceremony and dancing. Some of them are giving an interview
Keywords: ethnography; social culture; social life; material culture; Gauri Dance; Bhils; Rajasthan; South Asia (India, Pakistan)