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Collection Area Visual Arts Project / Collection Archer Collection

261. Add Or 3395

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3395
Title:
Two majestic figures with angular heads and skirts standing on either side of a slim figure who is mounted on a stool.
Scope & Content:
Two majestic figures with angular heads and skirts standing on either side of a slim female figure who is mounted on a stool. The figure to the left has a green face; the figure to the right a white one. Below them, a monkey seated on a string bed in front of a leafy tree behind which a small ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

262. Add Or 3395-3398

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3395-3398
Title:
Add.Or.3395-3398 Scroll painting cut into four sections illustrating the Baha festival and Death’s kingdom. By a jadupatua of village Sonajori, Pakaur ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.3395-3398 Scroll painting cut into four sections illustrating the Baha festival and Death’s kingdom. By a jadupatua of village Sonajori, Pakaur subdivision, Santal Parganas district, Bihar, c.1930. Water-colour; width 275 mm. Collected by W.G. Archer, 1944. Purchased 1974. Note: For...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1929-1931
Extent:
4 items

263. Add Or 3396

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3396
Title:
The Baha festival.
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. (1) At the top, seven Santal villagers carrying a cloth, a pot, a winnowing fan and a basket with five fowls going in procession to the sacred grove, two of their number blowing on buffalo horns. (2) At the grove (indicated by four schematised trees), the ‘naeke’ or village ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

264. Add Or 3397

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3397
Title:
The Baha festival.
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. (1) The procession of six villagers returning from the grove, the priest leading them, the basket now containing only three fowls, a Santal woman washing the priest’s feet. (2) A Santal seated before a large post, resting on three round stones and ladling from it rice-beer; ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

265. Add Or 3398

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3398
Title:
Scenes from Death's kingdom.
Scope & Content:
Scenes in Death’s kingdom. (1) Death, holding in one hand his book of punishments and in the other his club, sentences an evil-doer who is suspended by the hair before him by a huge demon. (2) A row of five Santals undergoing different punishments; a man ‘who drove away his parents’ has a larg...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

266. Add Or 3399

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3399
Title:
Hor Raja on a horse out hunting. Artist(s): Girish Jadupatua (c.1930)
Scope & Content:
Hor Raja (chief of the Santal tribe) mounted on a brown horse out hunting; below him a dog biting the tail of a deer. Note: ‘Hor’ is Santali for ‘Santal’.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

267. Add Or 3399-3400

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3399-3400
Title:
Add.Or.3399-3400 Scroll painting cut into two sections illustrating the Santal clans. By Girish Jadupatua, village Baramasia, Hiranpur circle, Pakaur ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.3399-3400 Scroll painting cut into two sections illustrating the Santal clans. By Girish Jadupatua, village Baramasia, Hiranpur circle, Pakaur subdivision, Santal Parganas district, Bihar, c.1930. Water-colour; width 270 mm. Collected by W.G. Archer, 1940. Purchased 1974.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1929-1931
Extent:
2 items

268. Add Or 3400

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3400
Title:
Four Soren sepoys marching.. Artist(s): Girish Jadupatua (c.1930)
Scope & Content:
Four Soren sepoys (members of the soldier clan) marching in brown and blue uniforms with boots and carrying on their shoulders cut-down muskets. Below a small black elephant, its rider, Murmu Thakur (the priest clan), prodding it with a goad.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

269. Add Or 3401

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3401
Title:
Two majestic figures standing on either side of a small female figure in a tiny tree.. Artist(s): Girish Jadupatua (c.1930)
Scope & Content:
Two majestic figures standing on either side of a small female figure standing in a tiny tree; the left large figure with white face, the right large figure with blue face;both figures with upraised arms ending in knob-like stumps. Note: Similar in conception to Add.Or.3395 and like that sectio...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

270. Add Or 3401-3406

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3401-3406
Title:
Add.Or.3401-3406 Scroll painting cut into six sections illustrating the Baha festival and Death’s kingdom. By Girish Jadupatua, village Baramasia, Hir ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.3401-3406 Scroll painting cut into six sections illustrating the Baha festival and Death’s kingdom. By Girish Jadupatua, village Baramasia, Hiranpur circle, Pakaur subdivision, Santal Parganas district, Bihar, c.1930. Water-colour; width 280 mm. Collected by W.G. Archer, 1940. Purcha...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1929-1931
Extent:
6 items