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Collection Area Visual Arts Project / Collection Archer Collection Subject Hindu imagery

1. Add Or 952

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Add Or 952
Title:
Krishna celebrating the Holi Festival with a crowd of milk-maids in a courtyard under red canopy. Artist(s): Hulas Lal (c.1785-c.1875)
Scope & Content:
Krishna celebrating the Holi festival with a crowd of milk-maids in a courtyard under a red canopy. By Hulas Lal (c.1785-1875), a Patna artist, c.1830. Water-colour; squared for enlargement; 9 by 12 ins. Presented by Michael Archer, 10 May 1968. Note: Obtained by W.G. Archer in Bihar from Sh...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1830
Extent:
1 Item

2. Add Or 1858

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Add Or 1858
Title:
Krishna and Kaliya. Artist(s): Sona Kumari (fl.1850-60)
Scope & Content:
Krishna and Kaliya. Drawing with gouache; red border 240 by 180 mm. Krishna is seated on the head of Kaliya playing his flute, with two of the snake wives attending him; aquatic larvae swim in the water and above. Note: Women painters of the family of Siva Lal were mostly employed on devotion...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1860
Extent:
1 Item

3. Add Or 1859

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 1859
Title:
Krishna and Kaliya. Artist(s): Sona Kumari (fl.1850-60)
Scope & Content:
Krishna and Kaliya. Drawing. 205 by 150 mm. Krishna triumphs over Kaliya and his wives, whom he drives before him using reins; three aquatic larvae swim above him.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1860
Extent:
1 Item

4. Add Or 2561

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2561
Title:
Scroll painting depicting the Baha festival - majestic figures. Artist(s): Jogendra Chitrakar (fl.1945)
Scope & Content:
Two majestic figures with large heads standing on the stumps of trees, a slightly shorter female figure with arms across her chest between them; the left figure with white face and chest, the right figure with black face and chest, both with rudimentary arms sprouting from their shoulders. Not...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1945
Extent:
1 Item

5. Add Or 2562

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2562
Title:
Scroll painting depicting the Baha festival. - white monkey. Artist(s): Jogendra Chitrakar (fl.1945)
Scope & Content:
A white monkey-like figure with yellow shorts and scarf, attended by a monkey-like companion, kneels before a large yellow bird with goose-like head and beak and with white plumage striped with red. Below, a leader with scarf aceompanied by an attendant and a fan-bearer approaching a red, three...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1945
Extent:
1 Item

6. Add Or 2563

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2563
Title:
Scroll painting depicting the Baha festival - procession to the grove. Artist(s): Jogendra Chitrakar (fl.1945)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Above, three Santals with upraised arrms accompanied by two drummers, the leading one with a ‘tamak,’ the other with a ‘tumdak’, pro’ceeding to the sacred grove. Below, the priest leaning on a staff and conducting four Santal assistants bearing a winnowing fan and a basket, ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1945
Extent:
1 Item

7. Add Or 2564

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2564
Title:
Scroll painting depicting the Baha festival - sacrificing and dancing. Artist(s): Jogendra Chitrakar (fl.1945)
Scope & Content:
The Baha Festival. At the sacred grove, two Santals blowing buffalo horns, the priest kneeling and offering a chicken, to the right two other Santals with a second chicken. Five pieces of cloth hanging on two trees. Below, four Santal women with sprigs of sal tree blossom in their hair dancin...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1945
Extent:
1 Item

8. Add Or 2565

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2565
Title:
Scroll painting depicting the Baha Festival - return from the grove, buffalo sacrifice. Artist(s): Jogendra Chitrakar (fl.1945)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. The priest holding a sprig of sal tree blossom in his hand and carrying a winnowing fan is greeted by two small Santal women on his return from the grove, one of them touching his legs. To the right, two other members of his party, one with a basket on his head, the other, l...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1945
Extent:
1 Item

9. Add Or 2566

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2566
Title:
Scroll painting depicting the Baha festival - python sacrifice. Artist(s): Jogendra Chitrakar (fl.1945)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Four Santals carrying a python, the leader about to saw off its head with a knife. Below, preparing the python meat in a pot, five Santals assisting, some of them sampling it.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1945
Extent:
1 Item

10. Add Or 2567

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2567
Title:
Scroll painting depicting the Baha festival - brewing rice beer. Artist(s): Jogendra Chitrakar (fl.1945)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Four Santals brewing and drinking rice-beer. Below, one of them lying drunk, attended to by two Santal women.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1945
Extent:
1 Item