Sunuwar sakela dancers in traditional costumes

Title: Sunuwar sakela dancers in traditional costumes
Description: Dancers at sakela festivals have started to standardize their clothing into traditional costumes, which however, still show a large variaty of designs. An outstanding recognition feature for the Sunuwar is the colorfully stripped knitted cape. The carrying of a longbow and arrow symbolically stands for the self-identification of the Kirat as hunters, even though hunting is largely obsolete nowadays.
Keywords: group:Yakkha researcher:Alban von Stockhausen organizer:Kirat Rai Yayokkha ritual-type:agrarian-cycle>ritual:bhume>event-step:worship group:Limbu ritual-type:agrarian-cycle>festival:udhauli group:Rai group:Sunuwar researcher:Chatur Bhakta Rai ritual-type:ancestral>ritual:sakela dance researcher:Marion Wettstein ritual-type:kirat ritual-type:ancestral
Location: Country: Nepal [geonames.org, tgn]

Province/state: Kathmandu [geonames.org]

Municipality: Kathmandu

City: Kathmandu [geonames.org]

Location_detail: Hattiban
description author(s): Marion Wettstein

von Stockhausen, Alban

hav media handle: 10621
original media identifier: NP11_Ph5D2_08761
license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
original media type: digital/photo
creator(s): von Stockhausen, Alban (photographer)
creation date: Dec. 10, 2011
archived by: jusch
archiving date: May 12, 2021, 6:07 a.m.

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