View of Perumal, a Mannan man, dancing, dressed in a pink floral skirt, and wearing a floral garland, and a pink headband with a flower in the center. On the left, a Mannan man plays a Maddaḷam, a barrel-shaped membranophone. The location is a Kumali tribal settlement in the forest of the Thekkady Wildlife Preserve. The event is a festival of the Mannan Ādivāsī people with dance and music. The festival was held in honor of the goddess Madurai Minatci, and/or Kannaki and Kovalan (the heroine and hero of the Silappadikaram, a semi-legendary Hindu-Jain Tamil epic poem). The village of Mannankudi is near Kumili, which is 5 km from Thekkady.<br>Ref. (Related Items): Ethnomusicology Archive, UCLA (coll. 198609_NA84): Bake Restudy Notes, p. 38, Jairazbhoy Diary, p. 77, Data Sheets, p. 161-166
View of two song and dance performers. Perumal, a Mannan man, dances on the left, dressed in a pink floral skirt, and wearing a floral garland, and a pink headband with a flower in center. Chinnan, a Mannan man, wears a white patterned western shirt and dances. On the right is the face of another Mannan man watching the dancers. The location is a Kumali tribal settlement in the forest of the Thekkady Wildlife Preserve. The event is a festival of the Mannan Ādivāsī people with dance and music. The festival was held in honor of the goddess Madurai Minatci, and/or Kannaki and Kovalan (the heroine and hero of the Silappadikaram, a semi-legendary Hindu-Jain Tamil epic poem). The village of Mannankudi is near Kumili, which is 5 km from Thekkady.<br>Ref. (Related Items): Ethnomusicology Archive, UCLA (coll. 198609_NA84): Bake Restudy Notes, p. 38, Jairazbhoy Diary, p. 77, Data Sheets, p. 161-166
