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. The festival lasts for about 40 days and takes place during the rainy season. Every day a group of men from the tribe are dancing in the next village. 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 of the procession holy figure of the goddess Gauri is thrown into the water. In the picture is a group of actors playing one of the episodes. The scene shows the two of them that barred the way for others tending at this place
Keywords: ethnography; social culture; social life; material culture; actors; Gauri Dance; Bhils; Rajasthan; South Asia (India, Pakistan)