Title:

Two sisters, kachchi rabari shepherds (Iconographic document)

Creator:

Demski, Dagnosław

Place of publishing:

Kutch District ; Gujarat

Date issued/created:

[1992]

Description:

Photography (scan from a slide). 12 year old girl with her younger sister (about 4 years). The girl is dressed in everyday attire - green blouse, gray skirt and a long brown veil on her head. On the forehead there is tiara - piece of jewelry that indicates the status of the engagement. The younger sister wears a kind of necklace and rings on her wrists and ankles. According to the custom of the Indian village small children do not have the bottom part of the clothes that they can freely go about their needs. In the background wall of a cottage

Type of object:

Ethnographic object

Subject and Keywords:

ethnography ; social culture ; social life ; material culture ; kachchi rabari shepherds ; children

Resource type:

Obraz

Detailed Resource Type:

Photography

Format:

image/jpeg

Source:

part 1, box 1, 0022

Rights:

Rights Reserved - Free Access

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. 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:

Open