Kashmiri boys " dance-march"
Kashmiri boys " dance-march"
Boys in lumber yard in part of Kashmir again in single file circular formation. Men on small hillslope dressed in the traditional Kurta pajama (loose fitting long shirt and pants) wearing Kashmiri caps (cicular head hugging) watch the activity. In the background a ramshackle homestead with corrugated steel roof. A huge tree. Camera pans to show small crowd as they watch. Young boys in file with hands above head starting to walk around put their hands above their heads and then on their waist. Group of boys playing the flute and a man with large cylindrical drum in the center of the small group beating with drumsticks. Old squinty Kasmiri man in shawl and cap sitting with a younger man amidst the pile of wood. Boys in file walk stretching out legs every now and then. A better dressed man in the crowd possibly some co-ordinator or judge? in a black high collared formal Kasmiri coat and white pants stands watching.