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Collection Area Visual Arts Project / Collection Archer Collection

251. Add Or 3385

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3385
Title:
The great waters before the creation of the earth.
Scope & Content:
The great waters before the creation of the earth, with at the top a worm, prawn and crab, below two ‘raghop’ boar’ fishes and a turtle, and at the bottom a long crocodile and large turtle, the whole besprinkled with black dabs and smudges perhaps signifying earth or mud. Reproduced: M. Archer ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

252. Add Or 3386

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3386
Title:
Clumps of sirom grass (the first plants to be created) with below them Has (the first gander) and Hasil (the first goose).
Scope & Content:
Clumps of sirom grass (the first plants to be created) with below them Has (the first gander) and Hasil (the first goose) with their nests and the two eggs from which the first Santal pair was hatched.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

253. Add Or 3387

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3387
Title:
Maran Buru
Scope & Content:
Maran Buru, a squat figure with large head and black skin, addressing the first Santal pair, Pilcu Haram and Pilcu Budhi, Pilcu Haram shown with shorts, Pilcu Budhi with a skirt; below, a line of seven small figures (their daughters); at the bottom, on the right two further daughters, on the lef...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

254. Add Or 3388

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3388
Title:
Maran Buru.
Scope & Content:
Maran Buru, a black figure on the right, sending Pilcu Haram (shown as leading a line of seven sons) to hunt in the forest; below, Pilcu Budhi leading a line of seven daughters to gather plants and leaves; at the bottom a tree with the seven daughters in its branches and the seven sons standing ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

255. Add Or 3389

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3389
Title:
Life in the forest.
Scope & Content:
Life in the forest. At the top, a row of five deer; below Maran Buru instructing Pilcu Haram and Pilcu Budhi how to make rice-beer; at the bottom, three trees with Pilcu Haram and Pilcu Budhi in quest of the root from which to make the ferment. Reproduced: M. Archer (1970), pl.64.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

256. Add Or 3390

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3390
Title:
They discover the root.
Scope & Content:
They discover the root; Pilcu Haram shown digging it up, Pilcu Budhi, falling down as if drunk, thereby indicating the effects of the rice-beer and why the ferment is required. Around them the forest, shown as three trees. Below, Pilcu Haram seated beneath a tree, brewing rice-beer in a large ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

257. Add Or 3391

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3391
Title:
Pilcu Haram kneeling and straining rice-beer from the pot.
Scope & Content:
Pilcu Haram kneeling and straining rice-beer from the pot, his wife standing behind him. Below, their seven daughters (left) and seven sons (right) lying drunk on the ground in two rows, Maran Buru standing between them in the middle. Seven arches (signifying rooms), with a couple (one son and...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

258. Add Or 3392

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3392
Title:
Seven arches, with a couple standing in each.
Scope & Content:
Inscribed in Bengali characters: ‘ei pater mulya 2/11’ (The price of this picture is Rupees 2 Annas 2). Note: An allusion to the pairing off of Pilcu Harani and Pilcu Buddhi’s children, their intermarriage and the resulting formation of the first seven Santal clans.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

259. Add Or 3393

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3393
Title:
Above, five bongas in a row. Below, the seven sons in a line standing beside seven dishes.
Scope & Content:
Above, five bongas in a row. Below, the seven sons in a line standing beside seven dishes. Note: According to the artist the eldest son chose the largest dish which contained meat.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

260. Add Or 3394

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3394
Title:
Death, seated with his book of punishment and stout stick.
Scope & Content:
Death, seated with his book of punishments and stout stick, sentences a Santal evil -doer who is brought before him by one of his demon minions. Below, the offender lies prone while the demon stabs him with a spear. Note: The artist explained that Death is punishing the eldest son for choosing...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item