Search for: [Description = %22Photography %5C(scan from a slide%5C). 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 are dancing in the next village. 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%2C 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 picture shows a group armed with weapons and sticks actors with their faces painted in black and green%2C decorated with leaves%2C playing an episode of armed struggle. Several actors wearing British clothes. Men dance around a center in which is sitting a group of men dressed in white%2C and white or yellow turbans. The audience is sitting around the stage%22]

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