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Pura Kepisah, Sumerta - Denpasar. Pura Pasek Gelgel, Gerih - Abian Semal, Badung Pura Puncak Sari, Penarukan - Paninjoan, Bangli. Pura Bangun Sakti, Besakih - Karangasem ....................................

Added on: Jul 21, 2002 | Hits: 10104

Annual Brunka tribal ceremony in the villages of Boruca and Rey Curr?, South Pacific zone of Costa Rica. ?This symbolic celebration is of a post-colonial origin, it represents the tireless struggle between the Spanish and the natives. It encompasses the whole process of the historic confrontation of our great-grandfathers as well as the defense our ethnic cultural values. This struggle was also in defense of the traditional social system of the aboriginal peoples ? their culture, their forms of communal organization etc. It was recognized very early that the new ideology and methodology inspired by the colonist was to the detriment of our way of life, our environment and our ancestral knowledge and resources. Today we, their descendants, are suffering the consequences: the elimination of the forests, the drying up of our rivers, the rapid extinction of our native fauna, the brazen extraction of our archeological heritage, the contamination of land and waters.? (Rodolfo Rojas, Brunka leader of Rey Curr?, 1995)

Added on: Sep 28, 2005 | Hits: 11327

Handmade by artisans from Patzcuaro and surroundings in Michoacan, Mexico. Wide variety of models from skulls, life and death representations, devils, elfs, wizards and much more. Diferent kind of wood. Online shopping.

Added on: Oct 28, 2003 | Hits: 10370

Funerals are quite elaborate; when a person dies the Dogon believe their spirit hangs around for a while afterwards, and the big ritual occurs a year or two after the death, when it is decided that the spirit needs to move on. This ceremony is the famous Dogon mask dance that the young men of Songha and other tourist towns perform on demand for paying visitors. The masks represent the Dogon community, including both wildlife and people: there are Kanaga masks (the Dogon symbol for the world), rabbits, antelopes, monkeys, women, Peul, Dogon, Bambara, even ethnographer and doctor masks, adopted after the arrival of white anthropologists and explorers in the 1930?s. A lot of research has been done recently on the effect anthropologists have had on the region as far as influencing the evolution of the dances. Some of the Dogon feel that the newer "white" masks aren?t traditional or authentic, and have stopped including them in the dances, despite the fact that the Dogon have always made masks depicting newcomers (Peuls, for example).

Added on: Mar 30, 2001 | Hits: 9780

Photos of masks, costumes, ceremonies, sacred dances. Among the tribes portayed are Hopi, Zuni, Tewa. The North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis is one of the most significant and controversial representations of traditional American Indian culture ever produced. Issued in a limited edition from 1907-1930, the publication continues to exert a major influence on the image of Indians in popular culture. Curtis said he wanted to document "the old time Indian, his dress, his ceremonies, his life and manners." In over 2000 photogravure plates and narrative, Curtis portrayed the traditional customs and lifeways of eighty Indian tribes. Sensitive Images and Text This online collection contains all of the images and caption text as originally published in The North American Indian. The captions reflect a perspective that Indians were "primitive" people whose traditional cultures and ways of life were disappearing. In his representation of Indians as the "vanishing race," Curtis echoes the prevailing view held by Euro-Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Contemporary readers should interpret the captions in that context. Some captions and images portray ceremonial rituals and objects that were not intended for viewing by the uninitiated. No images have been excluded or specially labeled. They are included in this digital collection in order to represent the work fully

Added on: Jun 20, 2002 | Hits: 11874

Mariwin is very colorful ceremony as the participants paint their bodies black, wearing only green leaves and red masks. They carry sticks which they use to strike children that have misbehaved recently. The men wearing the red masks represent ancestral spirits rather than human beings and do not talk. Instead, they make eerie sounds that frighten the children.

Added on: Aug 09, 2006 | Hits: 10784

Among the most colorful and fascinating of these festivals were the masked dance ceremonies known as Tsam. These ceremonies, introduced in the eighteenth century, were held around the New Year with the purpose of destroying the evil that had accrued during the past year. Performed by monks, the characters portrayed in the dances included a wide variety of terrifying deities from the Lamaist pantheon. Today, however, in newly independent Mongolia Tsam ceremonies are once again being performed.

Added on: Apr 06, 2001 | Hits: 12870

Small Info text and very nice photo of Wayang Topeng dancers

Added on: Dec 29, 2000 | Hits: 9120

"....Figure 1: This Chapayeka wears the older style white mask made of hide with long ears and a sharp nose. His folded blanket is also worn in the traditional manner. Chapayeka means "long nose" in Yaqui, perhaps referring to the early Spaniards......"

Added on: May 02, 2001 | Hits: 15207