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Double-sided dhol drum used during Tuwachung-Jayajum festival

  • von Stockhausen, Alban
(June 6, 2011)
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Content Description

Title
Double-sided dhol drum used during Tuwachung-Jayajum festival
Description
Sakela dance groups often bring along musical instruments (dhol drums and chyamta cymbals) and other paraphernalia (swords, shields, yak tail fronds, rattles, weaving combs, sickles) for their dance performance.
Keywords
work-sphere:craft>process:weaving ritual-type:ancestral>event:offering for the ancestors ritual-type:animist>deity:Sacred Stone researcher:Alban von Stockhausen group:Rai>sub-group:Dumi Rai group:Rai ritual-type:hinduist researcher:Chatur Bhakta Rai researcher:Marion Wettstein group:Rai>sub-group:Chamling Rai mythology:Creation Story>sub-story:Story of Toma Khema and Kakcilipu ritual-type:ancestral
Location
  • Country: Nepal [geonames.org, tgn]
  • Province/state: Khotang [geonames.org]
  • Municipality: Halesi Tuwachung
  • City: Salle [geonames.org]
  • Area: Tuwachung-Jayajum
  • Area: Tuwachung-Jayajum>place:Khema weaving place>deity:Khema
  • Location: Tuwachung-Jayajum
description author(s)
  • Marion Wettstein
  • von Stockhausen, Alban

Media Description

hav media handle
10336
original media identifier
NP11_Ph5D2_04853
original media type
digital/photo
creator(s)
  • von Stockhausen, Alban (photographer)
creation date
June 6, 2011
archived by
jusch
archiving date
May 12, 2021, 6:05 a.m.

Archived Files and Derivatives

file information
NP11_Ph5D2_04853.dng (24.3 MB)
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