- Title
- Prem Bahadur (Salghare) reciting and dancing in the courtyard during sakela or bhume puja
- Description
- Salghare, the ritual specialist (nagire nakcho or kubimi) of the Dumi Rai performs a part of the bhume or sakela puja, an agricultural ritual. Clad in his ritual dress he performs ritual movements and gestures in the courtyard of one of the most important households of the village, before departing to the sakela than, the place where the deity for who the ritual is performed dwells.
- Keywords
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ritual-type:agrarian-cycle>festival:ubhauli
researcher:Chatur Bhakta Rai
group:Rai>sub-group:Dumi Rai
researcher:Marion Wettstein
ritual-type:agrarian-cycle>ritual:bhume>event-step:worship
researcher:Alban von Stockhausen
ritual-type:ancestral>ritual:sakela dance
ritual-type:animist>ritual:bhume>deity:Sakela
ritual-type:ancestral
- description author(s)
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- Marion Wettstein
- von Stockhausen, Alban