Banjara (or Lambadi) women singing and dancing, Hyderabad, vicinity (India), 1963
Item Overview
- Title
- Banjara (or Lambadi) women singing and dancing, Hyderabad, vicinity (India), 1963
- Creator
- Jairazbhoy, Nazir Ali, 1927-2009
- Date Created
- December 21, 1963
- Date
- 1963-12-21
- Collection
- Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Notes
- Description
- Twelve Banjara women dance (welcome song for marriage?) with raised arms, bedecked with white bangles. They wear large nose rings and elaborate necklaces. Their long cholīs (blouses), gāgrās (ankle-length full skirts), and oṛhnīs (shawl worn over head, one end tucked into waist) are decorated with needlework, coins, and mirror work. The headman Gajā, plays a daf / ḍapla (?) for their song. Other men had left for work in fields. Bañjārā homes are visible in the background. The village is 17 miles from Hyderabad.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Dimensions
- 35mm
- Medium
- b&w negative
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Ethnomusicology Archive
- Local Identifier
- bake_NAJ_N63_293
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002k34s9
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Local rights statement
- This file is owned by the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive and its contents are copyrighted. It cannot be duplicated or used without explicit permission from the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive: 1630 Schoenberg Music Bldg., Los Angeles, CA 90095-1657, (310) 825-1695, archive@arts.ucla.edu.