Theyyam Register: An Inventory of Theyyam, the Intangible Cultural Heritage of North Malabar

A list of 102 Theyyam deity forms of North Malabar that have a Wikidata item, with their Wikidata ID, Malayalam name and English name. Pre-release. This is the first dataset from the Theyyam Register, a larger list of about 365 theyyams with their performing communities, kavus and sources. This first release covers only the theyyams that already have a Wikidata item, so each row can be checked against Wikidata. Published as part of the Wiki Loves Theyyam initiative. Contents (Frictionless Tabular Data Package): data/theyyam-wikidata.csv: 102 rows, UTF-8. Fields: wikidata_id, name_ml (Malayalam name), name_en (English name). datapackage.json: metadata, licence, sources and table schema. README.md, CITATION.cff, LICENSE.md, CHANGELOG.md. Sources: Malayalam Wikipedia (list of theyyams, തെയ്യങ്ങളുടെ പട്ടിക, and category വർഗ്ഗം:തെയ്യങ്ങൾ), English Wikipedia (Category:Theyyam) and Wikidata.