Agricultural ritual among Irulas
These Irula men play a flute and drums while the women are using short-handled hoes to clear a hillside (probaby for the cultivation of ragi or maize). The drum heads are covered with buffalo hide, and the flute is a type (the nagasvaram) used all over India. A woman, wearing leaves and palm fronds,...
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Agricultural ritual among Irulas [electronic resource]. |
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Format: | Photo |
Language: | English |
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[S.l.] :
[s.n.],
1953.
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SOAS Digital Library.
ASC. REGIONS. FORMATS. PHOTOS. RSEA. FURER. ILOA. |
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