TY - GEN A1 - Demski, Dagnosław N1 - Photography (scan from a slide). The views from Kumbha Mela. In the foreground you can see the streets and people living in huts. Before huts lie piles of wood offered for sale. In January and February nights are cool on the Ganges. Behind the street is visible the area of celebration - a lot of tents and overpass. This is done during the Kumbha Mela that take place in Allahabad every 12 years (after 6 years is done so called. Semi-mela). This is the most numerous festival in northern India, and Allahabad uniqueness lies in the fact that it lies at the point where the Yamuna flows into the Ganges. Place of merging the waters and precisely place can be seen by the different colors of both water - is considered particularly auspicious for bathing during the Kumbha mela CY - Allahabad CY - Allahabad District CY - Uttar Pradesh PY - [1989] KW - ethnography KW - social culture KW - social life KW - material culture KW - Kumbha Mela festival KW - Allahabad (India) T1 - Kumbha Mela (Iconographic document) UR - http://www.rcin.org.pl/iae/dlibra/publication/edition/40968 ER -