Title:

Married young couple, kachchi rabari wedding(Iconographic document)

Creator:

Demski, Dagnosław

Place of publishing:

Kutch District ; Gudjarat

Date issued/created:

[1992]

Description:

Photography (scan from a slide). The bride and groom and the guests at the wedding ceremony kachchi rabari. The groom goes with the bride connected with a white cord. This part of the wedding ceremony is a encirclement by the fire. At the end of the last lap they become husband and wife. Bride is hidden under the veil from view of participants, and groom is dressed as a king (raja). Guests are dressed in festive costumes, women in distinctive long black veils with red dots. Young women decorated jewelry, indicating their status as married women. Men are also festively dressed traditionally in white, the black and purple turban with patterns - a sign of belonging to a group kachchi rabari

Type of object:

Ethnographic object

Subject and Keywords:

ethnography ; social culture ; social life ; material culture ; kachchi rabari wedding ; married young couple

Resource type:

Obraz

Detailed Resource Type:

Photography

Format:

image/jpeg

Source:

part 1, box 1, 0041

Rights:

Rights Reserved - Restricted Access

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. Access only on terminals at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 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:

Closed