Close-up of a pendant fixed at Toma's place at Tuwachung-Jayajum festival

Title: Close-up of a pendant fixed at Toma's place at Tuwachung-Jayajum festival
Description: According to the myth of the two sisters Toma and Khema, and their younger brother Kakcilipu (as they are called among the Dumi Rai), the sisters invented the craft of weaving on the hill of Tuwachung-Jayajum.
Keywords: researcher:Chatur Bhakta Rai group:Rai>sub-group:Dumi Rai researcher:Marion Wettstein group:Rai group:Rai>sub-group:Chamling Rai mythology:Creation Story>sub-story:Story of Toma Khema and Kakcilipu>mythological-figure:Toma researcher:Alban von Stockhausen mythology:Creation Story>sub-story:Story of Toma Khema and Kakcilipu ritual-type:hinduist ritual-type:ancestral
Location: Country: Nepal [geonames.org, tgn]

Province/state: Khotang [geonames.org]

Municipality: Halesi Tuwachung

City: Salle [geonames.org]

Area: Tuwachung-Jayajum

Location: Tuwachung-Jayajum
description author(s): Marion Wettstein

von Stockhausen, Alban

hav media handle: 10306
original media identifier: NP11_Ph5D2_04822
license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
original media type: digital/photo
creator(s): von Stockhausen, Alban (photographer)
creation date: June 6, 2011
archived by: jusch
archiving date: May 12, 2021, 6:04 a.m.

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