Title:

Bride, Kachchi rabari (Iconographic document)

Creator:

Demski, Dagnosław

Place of publishing:

Tappar ; Kutch District ; Gudjarat

Date issued/created:

[1992]

Description:

Photography (scan from a slide). The bride during the wedding ceremony. Her face is covered with green-orange veil is not visible to humans. She's linked to the groom - sitting on the right - with white wide lace. It's part of the Hindu ceremony. On the left is sitting bridesmaid, probably sister of the bride. Guests at the wedding ceremony kachchi rabari. Guests are dressed in festive costumes, women in distinctive long black veils with red dots. Young women decorated with jewelry, indicating their status as married women. The picture also shows the 'pillars' wedding stacked with copper pots. This are Hindu ceremonial items. In the back wall of a cottage

Type of object:

Ethnographic object

Subject and Keywords:

ethnography ; social culture ; social life ; material culture ; bride from a group of kachchi rabari shepherds

Resource type:

Obraz

Detailed Resource Type:

Photography

Format:

image/jpeg

Source:

part 1, box 1, 0054

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

Access:

Closed