Kalash Valley Foundation, Ladies Appearance

Foundation :-

Foundation :-
The study was led in Bumburet valley of area Chitral, Pakistan. The present day condition of Chitral locale is situated in the Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa Area. This state was before an old nation with its fringes stretching out up to Badakshanand Bashagalin the North West and the Kunar Valley in the south the distance to Bilamand Chaghasswari. A large portion of these regions now lie in Afghanistan. The fringe of the state was not perpetual because of the progressing extension of the neighboring condition of Gilgit and Kashakar. Bumburet Valley of Kalash is arranged around 35 kilometers toward the south of Chitral, which opens towards the Kunar Waterway. Amid 1959 the kingdom of Chitral was joined to Pakistan and along these lines the Kalash individuals got to be subjects of Pakistan. The aggregate range of Bumburet valley is 180 Sq.Km out of which 51 Sq.Km is livable and cultivable. There are six principle field units at a height of 3500m above ocean level and possess about portion of the aggregate geological zone of the valley. The Kalash towns in all the three valleys are situated at a tallness of roughly 1900 to 2200m. The atmosphere is for the most part semi dry.[1]
Dialect :-
The dialect of the Kalash is the Kalasha and is a Dardic dialect (sub gathering of Indo Aryan dialects talked in Northern Pakistan, eastern Afghanistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir). The dialect is talked by a modest bunch of individuals around 5000 and is thought to be fundamentally jeopardized by UNESCO. The Kalasha dialect has no legitimate script; be that as it may, there have been late improvements in presenting a formal script for the dialect.2
Area :-
Situated in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, the Kalash individuals live in three separated mountain valleys: Bumburet (Kalash: Mumuret), Rumbur (Rukmu), and Birir (Biriu). These valleys are opening towards the Kunar Waterway, somewhere in the range of 20 km south (downstream) of Chitral, The Bumburet and Rumbur valleys join at 35°44′20″N 71°43′40″E (1640 m), joining the Kunar at the town of Ayrun (35°42′52″N 71°46′40″E, 1400 m) and they every ascent to passes interfacing with Afghanistan's Nuristan Area at around 4500 m.
The Birir valley opens towards the Kunar at the town of Gabhirat (35°40′8″N 71°45′15″E, 1360 m). A pass unites the Birir and Bumburet valleys at around 3000 m. The Kalash towns in each of the three valleys are situated at a stature of around 1900 to 2200 m.
The district is to a great degree fruitful, covering the mountainside in rich oak backwoods and taking into account escalated horticulture, notwithstanding the way that the vast majority of the work is done not by hardware, but rather by hand. The intense and hazardous waterways that course through the valleys have been saddled to power granulating factories and to water the ranch fields using astute watering system channels. Wheat, maize, grapes (by and large utilized for wine), apples, apricots and walnuts are among the numerous foodstuffs developed in the region, alongside surplus feed utilized for bolstering the domesticated animals.
Tradions :-
The overall public of Kalash are to an incredible degree particular about their religion and break ties with anyone of them who adherents to Islam. The converts are not allowed after the change to be a bit of their gathering. They keep their identity strong.[2]
 The all inclusive community of Kalash differ from the all inclusive community of the enveloping zones in different ways. There is no parcel amidst folks and females in Kalash and are allowed to keep contact and give without any fingers being raised at them. Plus, the females of Kalash are sent to live in a bashaleni when they are thought to be spoiled for e.g. in the midst of the work period and diverse occasions. These women are simply prepared to experience this spot after they recover their flawlessness and have encountered the custom of restoring excellence.



[2] http://www.idosi.org/mejsr/mejsr16%2810%2913/14.pdf


 
The Kalasha lady's appearance :-
 The Kalasha lady's appearance :-
The main thing one can see about these individuals is their cordiality and their chipper attitude demonstrated particularly on female appearances. Regardless of in what circumstance they will be they will welcome one another with an agreeable grin and kiss on one another's hands, the Kalasha way. Regardless of the unforgiving environment and rather primitive method for living their just fuel being the wood they need to cut and carry on their back-their life is a steady celebration. Aside from the religious festivals held in every one of the four seasons of the year, there is dependably a get-together for them to celebrate and have a decent time: whether there is a festival for the new-conceived infant, or the six-year-old kids entering the Kalasha society or a wedding or even a memorial service; whatever the occasion, they share the function by playing so as to move and singing or the drum or drinking wine. So, they appreciate life. Furthermore, the essential part in the social and social life is played by the Kalasha lady. To start with, what recognizes her from the male individuals from the group is her crown and her ensemble, both of which she wears regardless of where she is: in the field, doing the diligent work, for example, burrowing or watering the fields, in the cow stable, in the house, at the festival. She will dependably look a la mode and clean and to a great degree fastidious with her appearance. On extraordinary events, for example, the Spring celebration (the Zhoshi), for instance, she would paint her face with a cream produced using smoldered goat horn and spread. She would likewise make up her face and eyes with various shading paints. The goat horn cream likewise has recuperating impact.
The shuman :-
These are woolen strips finger woven without a weaving machine. They are utilized as a lady's or a young lady's available keeping in mind the end goal to respect a visitor or a good or dearest individual.[1]


The Kalasha lady's haircut :-
They are to a great degree careful about their hairdo. They wash their long hair in the Kunar waterway and afterward in the wake of brushing it completely they make five plaits, the cu'i: one hanging down sideways on the temple two on top of the head holding tight the sides behind the ears and two beginning from the back of the head simply over the neck and hanging down the back. Amid the Zhoshi celebrations in May I saw some young ladies, understudies at Chitral College or other officially taught Kalasha ladies, wearing their hair just in three plaits rather than five. Does this mean one more loss of Kalasha society due to instruction? I can scarcely trust that
The women of Kalash wear long dull free robes with splendid weavings and cowrie shells. These women are also found wearing wonderful spots and bits of adornments that further remember them from alternate women of the Chitral region. They enhance their dim robes by making use of excellent since a long time back bent head wears. The folks of the Kalash notwithstanding what may be normal have gotten the Pakistani national dress i.e. the shalwar kameez and are oftentimes found wearing waistcoats over them. They furthermore wear tops typical toward the northern scope of Pakistan.
The overall public of Kalash stroll to a substitute drummer. Their conventions and traditions are as different as day and night, especially vis–à–vis the thought of marriage. Marriage by elopement is more customary in the Kalash valley and is in like manner typical amongst women who are presently hitched to another man. Frankly, wife elopement is thought to be one of the monstrous customs of the all inclusive community of Kalash.
Exactly when a man and woman get hitched the man pays the woman's family a particular total with a particular final objective to have her. Right when a woman needs to surrender her present life partner and marry some other man, she offers herself to that man and instructs him of how much her present mate had paid for her. All together for the man to marry a formally married woman he needs to pay twofold the aggregate to have.[2]


Dress and status :-
The purest woolen dress is shown to an adolescent when he/she is around three to four years old before the chelumjoshi festivity. As the tyke turns out to be more prepared the same dress is balanced. The adolescent is instructed about the importance and giganticness of the outfit and is affirmed to keep the uprightness and purged sentinel. In the past the dress was plain simply improved with metallic enhancements joined with an excellent kupas, however in contemporary period the neck range, sleeves and hemline are designed with weaving using splendid vegetable shaded strings. The metal trimmings are in like manner supplanted with plastic spots and pearls in a perfect world in white, dim, yellow, orange, green and red shading. There is no restriction of shading for any female fitting in with any age or financial wellbeing. The woolen dress is right away limited to the business use just, especially  made for the guests and nonnatives, and are incredibly expensive. The advancement of the dress is a more noteworthy measure of Arabic style and bears really no closeness with Greek Ionic, Chiton and Hung fabric.  
WOMEN HEADGEAROF KALASHA TRIBE
Pati (Belt) :-
It is a clear belt with edges and long edges contorted around the hip. The belt keeps the dress set up which for the most part hang unreservedly above waist as kimono without front opening. The free fabric viably serves as pockets in which they can keep easily overlooked details like, cash, pins, family relationship bunches, dry normal items, and other utility things. This pati is consistently utilized as a knickknack for the guest.[3]
WOMEN ACCESSORIESKALASHA WOMEN  


Susit (Minor Crown) :-
The minor hood, a less formal embellished thing which is standard and females are not allowed to be seen without it. This crown is inherent two segments a ring with a long tail. The tail is approximately 10-15 creeps in length, which hangs down the back. This crown is given to the young women close by the "Cou" on her fourth birthday the cap is the picture of pride, respectability and thankfulness to the family and their tribal identity in the range so they promise that the child is prepared for dealing with it with required tastefulness and honorability. The dress and embellishments have encountered a couple changes. In the past it was just a plain ring with edges at the back and the sole outline was to support the Kupas because Kupaswere essential for these females. In the blink of an eye the Kupasare simply kept to phenomenal occasions and festivities. The young women are more conscious and think about changes which are happening around them as they have basic access in domains which were at that point past their imaginative vitality. So now they have added to an unrivaled tasteful, and are using this office to make qualification in change in accordance with their social event The young women used to finish the long edges of string with spots, buttons,cowries and stones in lines and sections, however now instead of the string.



[1] http://www.kalashwelfare.org/index.php?/about-kalash/history-and-culture-of-the-kalash/

[2] http://www.tourism.gov.pk/kalash_valley_nothern_areas.htm
[3] http://tune.pk/video/2590023/kalash-valley-of-hindu-kuch-chitral-north-pakistan

The Kalasha woman as an integral part of the family and the community :-

The Kalasha woman as an integral part of the family and the community :-
After the start day, the goshnik, when the four year old young lady formally puts on grown-up apparel, that is the piran and the shushut (not the kupas so far!), the Kalasha young lady is prepared to face her obligations in the family she is raised by. Her first errand will be to bring water from the stream for cooking or to take the metal glasses to the stream or to the close-by tap (in the event that it is working) for washing. Continuously heavier tasks enter her life: Bringing her garments down to the waterway and washing them; or gathering kindling and after that conveying it on her in a goat hair wicker bin to her home; or trimming grass for the bovine or heating the Kalasha bread, the tasili; or getting included in cultivating. Whatever the errand she is constantly sprightly and content with what she is doing.[1] At the point when achieving adolescence, unless she chooses to abandon her town and attend a university in Chitral town, the Kalasha young lady will get hitched at 16 years old or 17 (now and then at 14!) with the young fellow she picks. Every so often, relational unions should be possible by game plan. The recently wedded young lady won't instantly move into her spouse's family home. She might backtrack to her dad's home for quite a while and afterward return to her spouse's family home where she ordinarily settles down after the conception of her first conceived. The Kalasha female's life - from right on time youth up to exceptionally seniority is entwined with hard work. The six-yearold young lady (additionally the kid) will wake up at 5:00 in the morning to bring water from the close-by stream for washing or little twigs for the flame so her mom can cook the tasili  (bread) and the tea or milk for her and her brothers or sisters. Then the young female pupil will have to struggle to school either downhill or uphill, walking on narrow uneven and precipitous paths or cliffs for one mile or five depending on the distance-sometimes she will have to walk to the next village! Around early afternoon she will repeat the morning chores plus helping her mother with hand-crafts, for example, knitting the shuman. Or she will go to the field of corn or maize and work by her mother’s side, digging under the hot afternoon sun or changing the flow of water in the channels in the field an irrigation task performed daily exclusively by females.
Not with standing amid this time she will be wearing the dark piran (her dress) and the substantial hat (the shushut just) and adornments (the ma'ik) around her exposed neck. There is not really at whatever time for play. Her toys are generally little adjusted stones to play a round of jacks or greater stones wrapped with old material. Later on at night all the family assemble to eat the dinner that her mom has made – for the most part beans with rice and the tasili, the common Kalasha bread just maize flour in water, prepared on a warmed stove by exposed hands (tasili made of wheat flour or walnut tasili, cheddar, margarine and meat are eaten just with visitors or on extraordinary events, for example, wedding or burial service functions). After that, the young lady with her senior sisters will take the pots and the containers to the close-by streams and wash every one of them in plain water.[2]
This is a standard errand together with the washing of her own garments. She brings them down to the stream or waterway and washes them completely with a bar of cleanser by beating them hard on a bit of wood or stone and after that she hangs them on a wall or trees. Once in a while for substantial washing an expansive pot with bubbling water is put beside the stream. The additional assignment of the young lady is to keep the flame going. One might ponder would could it be that keeps the Kalasha young lady or lady of any age constantly vivacious and with such a bright face! All the time I was flabbergasted to see them having a ball in sewing their own garments on the sewing-machine or weaving the pati (belt) outside the house, on the new grass of their yard beside the bovine and in the meantime breastfeeding a little child! Indeed, the answer is self-evident! It is their own demeanor, their character and identity, their meticulousness and manner. This high soul is reflected in their remarkable moving amid the celebrations for which they set up their looks and appearance somewhat early. In the Kalasha dialect there are no names for the times of the week, nor for the months of the year. The primary celebrations (Lievre and Loude 1980) happen as per normal occasions of the season. In spring the Zhoshi celebration (Might 12), in summer the Uc'aw (August) and in winter the Chawmos (December) which is the biggest and most religious one. Despite the fact that the Kalasha lady is barred and really banned from the havens and religious (Lievre 1996) or shamanistic practices because of the thought of polluting influence connected with the lady, none of these celebrations can be delighted in without the vicinity of the Kalasha female. It is the obvious clothing and her imperativeness, the applauding, the melodies and the moving that keep the celebrations.[3]



[1] Intrator Mira, Romaine Rattame Kalash Solstice (Islamabad,Loke virsa publication house, None)
[2] http://www.kalashwelfare.org/index.php?/about-kalash/history-and-culture-of-the-kalash/
[3] Schombery R.C.F  Kafirs and Glaciers travel in Chitral (None, Martin Hoplainson limited, 1932)