Indo-Jamaican video project
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1991.11.1
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Homiak, John P. (John Paul), 1947-
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content: John P. Homiak videos of Jamaica
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Videocassettes (3 hours, color sound)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1991
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Videocassettes
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Full video record created in association with a Smithsonian Research expedition to record the festival traditions of East Indians in Jamaica. Documentation focuses on creolized East Indian music, dance, and ritual. Video includes: a group of male age-mates performing bhajan music (an ensemble of dhole, accordian, cymbals, and sarangee); a jonglia dance accompanied by biraha music with drumming on the tamden negurchi and negaru drums; scenes in a Hossay yard with a demonstration of the Hossay drums; a communal gathering known as a setsangh; and a healing rite for an infirm Indian elder. Also included is documentation of an annual Holi or pagwah ceremony held in west Kingston which, in Jamaica, is associated with fertility and the renewal of social relationships.