recording session of Par performance of Pabuji

The photographs grouped within this file is the documentation of a recording session of Par performance of Pabuji by Jean Jenkins in the campus of Rupayan Sansthan, Borunda, Jodhpur. Par of Pabuji is a painted scroll that depicts the epic of Pabuji. The Bhopa and the Bhopi perform the epic of Pabuji, in front of the par .The performance consists of playing the Ravanhatha, a bowed fretless lute, singing, dancing and narrating the epic with the help of pictorial depictions on the Par. Extent and format of original material: 1 album of 9 photographs.