Object structure
Title:

Image of Mommai Mata (Iconographic document)

Creator:

Demski, Dagnosław

Place of publishing:

Chakar ; Kutch District ; Gujarat

Date issued/created:

[1992]

Description:

Photography (scan from a slide). Altar with images of the goddess Mommai Mata . The main one is a bas-relief painted with ocher and adorned in robes. On her face are marked eyes so called ' third eye ' . Before her a metal sculpture of the goddess on a camel . On the left you can see chromolithograph with the image of the goddess also driving by a camel . Before the images are lying different hardware devices used in rituals and ceremonies . On the back you can see other figures of deities painted in red. The altar is in a Hindu temple built by Hothi Rajputs from the neighboring village of Mota Bandra , and is used during the rite ofs Mommai mata by kachchi rabari . Temple is located in a valley surrounded by hills. Here take place characteristic rabari night ceremonies in the autumn season ( data. ... ) . During the night ceremony 150-200 people gather around her, and surrounded by a cordon of all the camels . For shepherds rabari Mommai mata is tutelary deity represented as riding a camel

Type of object:

Ethnographic object

Subject and Keywords:

ethnography ; social culture ; social life ; material culture ; image of Mommai Mata ; Gujarat

Resource type:

Obraz

Detailed Resource Type:

Photography

Format:

image/jpeg

Source:

part 1, box 11, 0012

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

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