Banjara (or Lambadi) women singing and dancing, accompanied by a ḍapla/dappu (?), Hyderabad, vicinity (India), 1963

Item Overview

Title: Banjara (or Lambadi) women singing and dancing, accompanied by a ḍapla/dappu (?), 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: Banjara women dancing and singing accompanied by a daf or ḍapla (?). Two women bedecked with white bangles with arms and bodies lowered, as Gajā, plays a daf or ḍapla (?) with thin bamboo sticks. Dwellings are visible in the background. The village is 17 miles from Hyderabad.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 photograph
Dimensions: 35mm
Medium: b&w negative

Keywords

Genre: black-and-white negatives
black-and-white photographs
Location: Hyderabad (Hyderabad, Telangana, India)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Villages--India--Hyderabad
Dancers
Lambadi (Indic people)
Daf
Membranophones
Musicians--India--Hyderabad

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Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Ethnomusicology Archive
Local Identifier: bake_NAJ_N63_294
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002k34tt
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