- Title
- Portrait of an assitant of the ritual specialist in charge of the bhume deity.
- Description
- The assistant of the ritual specialist wears a traditional white cotton suit, a black topi (Nepalese man's hat) and a white cotton belt into which he has stuck a large kukuri knife. He carries a cuiver with arrows on his back and a longbow and a bunch of leaves from the isilim tree in his left hand. In his right hand he carries a cindu, a calebass filled with water or raksi (locally destilled brandy), with the special gesture of a pointed index finger - a sign that he is an initiated ritual specialist himself.
- Keywords
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researcher:Chatur Bhakta Rai
group:Rai>sub-group:Dumi Rai
researcher:Marion Wettstein
group:Rai
group:Rai>sub-group:Chamling Rai
researcher:Alban von Stockhausen
mythology:Creation Story>sub-story:Story of Toma Khema and Kakcilipu
informant:Jaruman Rai
ritual-type:hinduist
ritual-type:ancestral
ritual-type:agrarian-cycle>ritual:bhume>event-step:discovering a new bhume deity
- Location
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- Country: Nepal [geonames.org, tgn]
- Province/state: Khotang [geonames.org]
- Municipality: Halesi Tuwachung
- City: Salle [geonames.org]
- Area: Tuwachung-Jayajum
- Area: Tuwachung-Jayajum>place:Bhume deity worshipping place>deity:Bhume
- Location: Tuwachung-Jayajum
- description author(s)
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- Marion Wettstein
- von Stockhausen, Alban
