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Title: Rite of Vachchada Dada, kachchi rabari (Iconographic document)

Creator:

Demski, Dagnosław

Date issued/created:

[1992]

Resource type:

Obraz

Place of publishing:

Sanosara ; Kutch District ; Gudjarat

Description:

Photography (scan from a slide). Men dressed in typical costumes of rabari kachchi group sitting at the shrine. On the wall are the trident red marks and dots. Photo was taken during the rite of Vachchada Dada. It takes place in the middle of the day, not like other after dusk. Participants gather around shrine lying in a field - men sit on the board of shrine, sing and play, and a woman are sitting on the ground. It is also an opportunity to give the names of the children who were born during the year. During the ceremony, one of the helpers take another child on the hands, and bhopa, a type of medium in a red turban, falls into a trance and gives children names

Type of object:

Ethnographic object

Detailed Resource Type:

Photography

Format:

image/jpeg

Resource Identifier:

oai:rcin.org.pl:43484

Source:

part 2, box 3, 0062

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

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