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Thanks for making 2024 a success! You can support the future of the Festival by making a tax-deductible donation. Past Programs 1985 Festival of American Folklife Mela! An Indian Fair 1985 Festival of American Folklife, Mela, an Indian Fair (85-80662). Photo by Tracy Eller. Courtesy of the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution. 1985 Festival of American Folklife, Mela, an Indian Fair (85-80687). Photo by Saundra Rodger. Courtesy of the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution. 1985 Festival of American Folklife, Mela, an Indian Fair (85-80712). Photo by Heirderer. Courtesy of the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution. 1985 Festival of American Folklife, Mela, an Indian Fair (85-80755). Photo by Tracy Eller. Courtesy of the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution. 1985 Festival of American Folklife, Mela, an Indian Fair (85-81059). Photo by Heiderer. Courtesy of the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution. 1985 Festival of American Folklife, Mela, an Indian Fair (FAF1985_0832). Courtesy of the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution. Mela! An Indian Fair on the National Mall sought to provide a culturally appropriate setting for a variety ofIndian ritual, performance, craft, commercial, aesthetic, and culinary traditions. Presenting the skills ofmore than 60 folk artists, craftspeople, and cultural specialists from India and the Indian American communityin a temporary bazaar replete with Indian handicrafts and cuisine, this program offered visitors a uniqueopportunity to experience and participate in Indian culture.
A mela, or Indian fair, is a large gathering of people who temporarily come together at a culturallyappropriate time and place. Melas usually occur at the intersections of trade routes, river banks orconfluences. The specific fairground often has a rich history and is frequently associated with the deeds of agod, goddess, or local hero. The time of the fair is set by the movements of sun, moon, planets, and stars inaccord with one of the various solar and lunar calendars that mark time in India.
The Mela program on the Mall was really a fair within a fair. It was a composite mela, compressing both spaceand time to present selectively only a few of India's many traditions. Just as a mela would in India, theprogram encouraged visitors to learn about and participate in Indian culture. The structures on the Mall werebuilt largely with natural and handcrafted materials from India, while the site itself was designed to reflectindigenous Indian concepts. The Learning Center tent housed the various ritual activities associated with someIndian festivals: a puja, or worship ceremony to Ganesha, the elephant-headed son of Shiva and remover ofobstacles, was exhibited in order to impart to visitors a sense of Hindu household and temple ritual; kolamfloor painting from Tamil Nadu was also demonstrated, as through such an art, space is sacralized and madeready to receive the presence of the deity. Also in the Learning Center were artisans who built the bamboo andpaper structures for the Hindu Dassehra and the Muslim Muharram celebrations.
The rest of the site was organized according to the five elements of Hindu metaphysics and their correspondingsenses: sound, touch, sight, taste, and smell. Song and dance could be found in the sound sections, asactivities associated with space or ether, the most subtle of the elements. In the touch area, associated withthe element air, were the acrobats, jugglers, kite maker, clothing and stalls for fans. In the sight sectionwere numerous stalls offering items of brass, terra cotta, wood, leather and stone - all associated with theelement fire and the notion of form. Roaming through this section were the magicians and impersonators tochallenge the eye. The taste section featured food, snacks and beverages, while the fragrances of India wereevident in the flower, incense and essence stalls.
In observance of the year-long Festival of India, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History featuredan exhibition of 1,500 objects of Indian folk art, as well as 40 artisans and performers demonstrating theirtraditional arts. Throughout the sections of the exhibition, objects associated with the particular stage ofthe life cycle were presented together with the folk artists who gave them meaning - the dancers, singers,musicians, puppeteers, painters, potters, jugglers, and acrobats of India. The juxtaposition of artists fromdiverse regions of the country with objects of varied temporal and geographic provenance suggested thematicunities as well as continuities of form and function. The exhibition ran June 4-July 28, 1985.
Mela! An Indian Fair was made possible through the generous support of The Handicrafts and Handlooms ExportCorporation Ltd. of India, The Ashok Group of Hotels (India Tourism Development Corporation), and CoromandelFertilizers Ltd. of India, an Indo-U.S. venture.
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