Orissa Tribal Bracelet **PAIR** Belly Dance 805c6

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Orissa Tribal Bracelet PAIR Belly Dance 805c6

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Sold Date: 11/03/2006
Channel: Online Auction
Source: eBay
Category: Ethnic, Folk & Native American Art

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This incredible Orissa Tribal BRACELET **PAIR**, from eastern India is great for BELLY DANCE, Tribal Dance, or wearing to that special Tribal Party or event!. . . HANDMADE in country, this handmade item was created and worn, in country, in ceremony. Made primarily from Brass, it is sure to intrigue and entertain ::smile::..
Orissa is a region in eastern India w about 87 per cent of the population live in villages. The districts of Phulbani, Mayurbhanj and Kalahandi are mostly rural having a rural population of about 94 per cent on average. Only a small fraction of the people live in towns and cities.
The village folk wear the traditional dress of dhoti and kurta and the women folk sarees. The working people put on shoulder a small piece of cloth called gamuchha, which is used for wiping one's body or tying it around the head as turban when necessary. Lungi is becoming popular with the younger people, but is used only as an informal dress. Boys wear shorts and shirts and girls, vests and frocks. The youth and the urban elites have mostly taken to the European fashion; shalwar and kameej has become a fashion with most urbanite girls.
Oriya, one of the oldest languages in the country having Sanskritic origin, is the predominant language spoken in the state and its outlying tracts. Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu are also widely understood and sometimes spoken. While Oriya is the official language of the state, English is spoken by the educated few.
Orissa has one of the largest concentrations of tribal population in India, with around 7 million people, about one quarter of the region's population. Tribal communities differ from all others in many respects, their distinctive features being clan organization, classes, social structure, youth dormitory, colorful rituals and folk art, music and dance. The 62 tribes in Orissa wary in size, degree of acculturation and economic patterns. While the Kondhs numbering nearly a million are numerically the largest in the state, the Santals are among the three largest and advanced tribes in the country. The major tribes living in Orissa are the Santab, Oraons, Gonds and Kondhs. Although many of the Adivasi tribes are found in other parts of the country, the Juangs, Gbhuyans, Saoras, Bondas and Bathudis are exclusive to Orissa. The tribal Communities are in various stages of economic and social development from the least developed Bondas, to the comparatively advanced Santals, the spectrum covering seminomadic to semiurban conditions. While a few tribes like the Lanjia Saoras and Kutia Kodhs are entirely primitive, the Santals have a high degree of acculturation.
According to their origin and habitat they are variously designated as Adimajati (primitive castes), Janajati (folk communities), Girijana (hill folk), Vanajati (forest dwellers), etc. However, these names do not bring out their essential characteristic of primal innocence and spontaneous living. Time seems to have stopped in their sylvan hamlets. Their ways of living with are meager needs of food, shelter and clothing and the life through music and dance seem to have remained unaltered through the ages of social evolution. The sacred God-nature-man relationship that works among them is an amazing experience to the fragmented and alienated mind of modern man.
Most tribal people are basically working people, working to gather food and fuel or engaged in agriculture which is often at a primitive level or maybe in some primitive craft: Their work is usually of subsistence type. The Adivasis have an uncomplicated Adamic approach to life and the basic human virtues.
Tribal art is entirely folk art; it is the concern of every common man and woman in the community and is not made by experts. The traditional architecture of the tiny tribal houses, gable or dome-shaped, has an eye-catching appeal of...