Search for: [Description = "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 is dancing in the next village. The 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\-participants of ceremony dressed in costumes of hunters, one of them is dressed as a goddess with the face painted in black. At the end of the episode in the center of the stage, where lance is dug in the ground people are bowing before a symbolic image of Gauri. This is one of the culminating moments of the rites, when the actors sing, and people are in a state of rapture. Behind them you can see the audience \- women and children\-sitting around a designated space on the stage"]

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