Resource Type: still image / Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Ethnomusicology Archive / Subject: Dancers - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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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.
Date:: December 21, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Banjara women dancing and singing. Six women dance (a welcome song for marriage?) with raised arms, bedecked with white bangles. They wear large nose rings, toe rings, and elaborate necklaces. Their long cholīs (blouse) 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 for their song. Other men had left for work in fields. Huts and a thatch-roof cowshed are visible in the background. The village is 17 miles from Hyderabad.
Date:: December 21, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts