- Title
- Sunuwar sakela dancers in traditional costumes
- Description
- Dancers at sakela festivals have started to standardize their clothing into traditional costumes, which however, still show a large variaty of designs. An outstanding recognition feature for the Sunuwar is the colorfully stripped knitted cape. The carrying of a longbow and arrow symbolically stands for the self-identification of the Kirat as hunters, even though hunting is largely obsolete nowadays.
- Keywords
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organizer:Kirat Rai Yayokkha
researcher:Chatur Bhakta Rai
researcher:Marion Wettstein
ritual-type:kirat
group:Sunuwar
ritual-type:agrarian-cycle>ritual:bhume>event-step:worship
group:Rai
researcher:Alban von Stockhausen
ritual-type:ancestral>ritual:sakela dance
group:Yakkha
ritual-type:agrarian-cycle>festival:udhauli
ritual-type:ancestral
group:Limbu
- description author(s)
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- Marion Wettstein
- von Stockhausen, Alban
