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Title	The Lela festival.
Type of title	translation
Original caption	Lelafest.
Description	Annotation translation: "Every year the Lela Festival is celebrated in Bali. It is the biggest and most important of all the Bali festivals and goes on for several days. The Chief alone is responsible for deciding when it will take place. When he gives his subjects the command to begin with the preparations both men and women are fully occupied. The men butcher animals and prepare great quantities of palm wine. The women brew maize beer and cook vegetables from their own produce. At the height of the festival an animal is sacrificed at a special place. It may be a white cock or a white ram. With this sacrifice they seek reconciliation with the deity and ask for power, success, health, and protection from all evil. At the place of sacrifice the white flags of the Bali flutter on tall poles, and smaller staffs also stand there - one is visible in the photograph. These are medicine-staffs. It is believed they are the dwelling-place of the deity on whom they call."; Annotation: "Jedes Jahr wird in Bali das Lelafest gefeiert, es ist das grösste & wichtigste aller Feste & dauert etliche Tage. Der Häuptling allein setzt die Zeit fest, an der es abgehalten werden soll. Wenn er seinen Untertanen befiehlt, mit den Vorbereitungen zu beginnen, sind Männer & Frauen vollauf beschäftigt. Die Männer schlachten Tiere & bereiten grosse Mengen Palmwein zu. Die Frauen brauen Maisbier & kochen von ihren Feldfrüchten. Am Haupttag wird an einem besondern Ort das Opfertier geschlachtet. Einmal ist es ein weisser Hahn, ein anderesmal ein weisser Widder. Mit diesem Opfer wollen sie die Gottheit versöhnen & Kraft, Erfolg, Gesundheit & Bewahrung vor allem Unglück von ihr erbitten. An hohen Stangen flattern an der Opferstätte die weissen Fahnen der Bali, daneben stehen aber noch kleine Stäbe, einer ist auf dem Bild sichtbar. Es sind Medizinstäbe. In diesen, so glauben sie, wohnt die Gottheit, die jetzt um Hilfe angerufen wird."; Stamped: "Museum der Basler Mission, Basel, Missionsstrasse 21."
Subject (bmpixs)	calabash ceremonial scene festival flag sacral place sacrificial object sacrificial place
Subject (corporate name)	Lela (festival)
Geographic subject	Bali {traditional state}; Bali {people}
Geographic subject (country)	Cameroon {modern state}
Coverage date	1932/1938
Photographer (bmpixn)	Zürcher, Wilhelm (Mr)
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	1932/1938
Type	images
Format	b/w positive, paper print, gelatin-silver; 5.7 x 7.8 cm.
Legacy record ID	impa-m30272
Part of collection	International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Part of subcollection	Historical Photographs from the Basel Mission
Part of official series	Cameroon. Land, people, religion. 5 Photographs by Zürcher. A) Land, nature, plants, animals, landscapes, places; b) the life of the people; c) religion.
Part of repository	mission 21 / Basel Mission
Reference number	E-30.85.248
Rights	All the images (photographic and non-photographic) made available in this collection are the property of the Basel Mission and are managed by mission 21. mission 21 / Basel Mission claim copyright on the images in their possession and require those publishing any of the images -- both individuals and organisations -- to pay a user's/copyright fee.
Access conditions	Contact the Archives of mission21 at address mentioned or at info@bmpix.org.
Repository name	mission21
Repository address	mission21, Missionsstrasse 21, CH-4003 Basel, Switzerland, tel. (+4161 260 23 09), fax (+4161 260 22 68)
Repository email	info@bmpix.org
Filename	impa-abmpix-19997
Archival file	impa_Volume63/impa-abmpix-19997.tiff

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