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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. The image shows two actors playing the hunting episode. One of them shot with a bow, and holding an umbrella. Behind them can be seen the audience \- women and children sitting or standing on the ground around the stage"]

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Demski, Dagnosław

[1986]
Ethnographic object

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