Sunday, September 18, 2011

[www.keralites.net] Iran's Ghashghai Wedding

 

The Ghashghai are Irans largest nomadic pastoralist (pastoral farming) group who live in Fars, Khuzestan and southern Isfahan province. Each year they travel with their flocks from Shiraz in the hot season to the winter pastures near the Persian Gulf. -Photos by Reuters


Ghashghai people sit inside a Siah Chador (black tent) as they wait to perform.


A Ghashghai man wearing traditional clothes holds a gun inside a Siah Chador (black tent).

Ghashghai people escort the bride riding a horse as she makes her way to the wedding ceremony.

A man dances at the wedding ceremony.

Ghashghai women dance as part of the symbolic traditional wedding ceremony.

The men play a traditional game called Dorna Bazi.

A Ghashghai man lights fire for the traditional wedding ceremony.

 A Ghashghai woman adjusts her scarf

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Thanks & Regards, Raj. Kumar(Courtesy to Dawn Web Site thru' Deepak)
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