Prem Bahadur (Salghare) reciting and dancing in the courtyard during sakela or bhume puja

Title: Prem Bahadur (Salghare) reciting and dancing in the courtyard during sakela or bhume puja
Description: Salghare, the ritual specialist (nagire nakcho or kubimi) of the Dumi Rai performs a part of the bhume or sakela puja, an agricultural ritual. Clad in his ritual dress he performs ritual movements and gestures in the courtyard of one of the most important households of the village, before departing to the sakela than, the place where the deity for who the ritual is performed dwells.
Keywords: ritual-type:agrarian-cycle>festival:ubhauli ritual-type:animist>ritual:bhume>deity:Sakela researcher:Alban von Stockhausen ritual-type:agrarian-cycle>ritual:bhume>event-step:worship group:Rai>sub-group:Dumi Rai researcher:Chatur Bhakta Rai ritual-type:ancestral>ritual:sakela dance researcher:Marion Wettstein ritual-type:ancestral
Location: Country: Nepal [geonames.org, tgn]

Province/state: Khotang [geonames.org]

Municipality: Kepilasagadhi

City: Sapteswor [geonames.org]

Location: Maldel

Location_detail: House of Patar Mani Rai
GPS Coordinates: 27.3187, 86.7844
description author(s): Marion Wettstein

von Stockhausen, Alban

hav media handle: 10083
original media identifier: NP11_Ph50D_00478
license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
original media type: digital/photo
creator(s): von Stockhausen, Alban (photographer)
creation date: May 18, 2011
archived by: jusch
archiving date: May 12, 2021, 6:03 a.m.

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