- Title
- Participants of the Tuwachung-Jayajum festival dancing at the worship place for Toma
- Description
- One of the official dance groups having arrived to the festival from nearby villages dancing sakela sili around the weaving stones of Toma. Sakela or sakela sili is the traditional dance of the bhume ritual among the Rai. It consists of a basic step and sequences of dance gestures (sili) and is accompanied by dhol drums, chyamta cymbals and singing.
- Keywords
-
ritual-type:animist>deity:Sacred Stone
researcher:Chatur Bhakta Rai
group:Rai>sub-group:Dumi Rai
researcher:Marion Wettstein
work-sphere:craft>process:weaving
ritual-type:ancestral>event:offering for the ancestors
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
ritual-type:ancestral>ritual:sakela dance
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
- Area: Tuwachung-Jayajum>place:Toma worshipping place>deity:Toma
- Location: Tuwachung-Jayajum
- description author(s)
-
- Marion Wettstein
- von Stockhausen, Alban
