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There was a song the listeners of Kaiarabani Dudhani sang for us, ‘Ot́ma lo̠lo̠’ (song 3, cylinder 4), which…

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Title as given by the source: There was a song the listeners of Kaiarabani Dudhani sang for us, ‘Ot́ma lo̠lo̠’ (song 3, cylinder 4), which is sung during Dasãe. Rev. P. O. Bodding, in his Studies in Santal Medicine and Connected Folklore (Kolkata: The Asiatic Society, first published in 1925), wrote in detail about the annual Dasãe festival in the month of the Dasãe or Ashwin, which is also the time of the Hindu festival of Durga puja. ‘This is naturally not a Santal festival; it is celebrated by the many Bengalis living in the country, the Santals participating as active spectators.’ Bodding wrote about young Santals going to see the idols and ‘sometimes [they are] even hired to carry it [the idol].’ This is the annual festival which marks the end of a three-month training the ojha or guru, the master medicine-man who knows all about plants, medicine and healing, has given to his all-male students. The festival marks this passing down of knowledge, as the young men and their teacher, dressed in kạcni (kind of skirt) instead of the ordinary ḍeṅganak’, or loincloth, and wearing turbans (there are aspects of cross-dressing here), carrying peacock feathers and the musical instruments buan and kabkubi, go wandering through villages, singing and dancing, gathering food from the people for the feast later in the evening.’
Place: RajshahiLocation is approximate — known to district level.
Date: Date unknown
Collection: The Travelling Archive
Persistent ID: BDMA-R-000562

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APA: There was a song the listeners of Kaiarabani Dudhani sang for us, ‘Ot́ma lo̠lo̠’ (song 3, cylinder 4), which is sung during Dasãe. Rev. P. O. Bodding, in his Studies in Santal Medicine and Connected Folklore (Kolkata: The Asiatic Society, first published in 1925), wrote in detail about the annual Dasãe festival in the month of the Dasãe or Ashwin, which is also the time of the Hindu festival of Durga puja. ‘This is naturally not a Santal festival; it is celebrated by the many Bengalis living in the country, the Santals participating as active spectators.’ Bodding wrote about young Santals going to see the idols and ‘sometimes [they are] even hired to carry it [the idol].’ This is the annual festival which marks the end of a three-month training the ojha or guru, the master medicine-man who knows all about plants, medicine and healing, has given to his all-male students. The festival marks this passing down of knowledge, as the young men and their teacher, dressed in kạcni (kind of skirt) instead of the ordinary ḍeṅganak’, or loincloth, and wearing turbans (there are aspects of cross-dressing here), carrying peacock feathers and the musical instruments buan and kabkubi, go wandering through villages, singing and dancing, gathering food from the people for the feast later in the evening.’. (n.d.). The Travelling Archive. Shurer Manchitra. https://shurer-manchitra.pages.dev/en/recordings/BDMA-R-000562 Original: https://www.thetravellingarchive.org/communal-listening-in-the-dumka-hills/
Chicago: "There was a song the listeners of Kaiarabani Dudhani sang for us, ‘Ot́ma lo̠lo̠’ (song 3, cylinder 4), which is sung during Dasãe. Rev. P. O. Bodding, in his Studies in Santal Medicine and Connected Folklore (Kolkata: The Asiatic Society, first published in 1925), wrote in detail about the annual Dasãe festival in the month of the Dasãe or Ashwin, which is also the time of the Hindu festival of Durga puja. ‘This is naturally not a Santal festival; it is celebrated by the many Bengalis living in the country, the Santals participating as active spectators.’ Bodding wrote about young Santals going to see the idols and ‘sometimes [they are] even hired to carry it [the idol].’ This is the annual festival which marks the end of a three-month training the ojha or guru, the master medicine-man who knows all about plants, medicine and healing, has given to his all-male students. The festival marks this passing down of knowledge, as the young men and their teacher, dressed in kạcni (kind of skirt) instead of the ordinary ḍeṅganak’, or loincloth, and wearing turbans (there are aspects of cross-dressing here), carrying peacock feathers and the musical instruments buan and kabkubi, go wandering through villages, singing and dancing, gathering food from the people for the feast later in the evening.’." Recorded in Rajshahi. n.d. The Travelling Archive. Shurer Manchitra, BDMA-R-000562. https://shurer-manchitra.pages.dev/en/recordings/BDMA-R-000562. Original at https://www.thetravellingarchive.org/communal-listening-in-the-dumka-hills/.
Persistent URL: https://shurer-manchitra.pages.dev/en/recordings/BDMA-R-000562

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