Entrance gate of Sakela Dharmic Ban
- von Stockhausen, Alban
Content Description
- Title
- Entrance gate of Sakela Dharmic Ban
- Description
- Above the gate a tensed bow and arrow is represented to symbolise the mythological self-identification of the Rai as hunters, as well as a drum (left) and a pair of cymbals (right) that represent the rhytmic instruments acomanying the sakela dance that is performed during sakela puja.
- Keywords
-
ritual-type:agrarian-cycle>festival:ubhauli group:Kirat>marker:Recreation Park researcher:Alban von Stockhausen ritual-type:agrarian-cycle>festival:udhauli researcher:Chatur Bhakta Rai ritual-type:ancestral>ritual:sakela dance
- Location
-
- Country: Nepal [geonames.org, tgn]
- Province/state: Sunsari [geonames.org]
- Municipality: Dharan Sub-Metropolitan
- City: Dharan [geonames.org]
- description author(s)
-
- Marion Wettstein
- von Stockhausen, Alban
Media Description
- hav media handle
- 10809
- original media identifier
- NP12_Ph5D2_13850
- original media type
- digital/photo
- creator(s)
-
- von Stockhausen, Alban (photographer)
- creation date
- Nov. 7, 2012
- archived by
- jusch
- archiving date
- May 12, 2021, 6:08 a.m.
Archived Files and Derivatives
- available variants
