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Collection Area Visual Arts Project / Collection Archer Collection

281. Add Or 3411

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3411
Title:
A large pale brown tiger with black spots and stripes mounted by a bearded Muslim figure holding a club.
Scope & Content:
A large pale brown tiger with black spots and stripes, red tongue, long claws and whiskers mounted by a bearded Muslim figure holding a small club. Above an orange alcove with three conical structures enclosed by a cusped black arch. Note: The structures may represent the ‘pir’s’ shrine.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

282. Add Or 3411, Add Or 3823-3825

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3411, Add Or 3823-3825
Title:
Add.Or.3411; Add.Or.3823-3825 Scroll painting cut into four sections illustrating the tigers’ god, the Muharram festival and scenes of Santal life. By ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.3411; Add.Or.3823-3825 Scroll painting cut into four sections illustrating the tigers’ god, the Muharram festival and scenes of Santal life. By a jadupatua of Dumka subdivision, Santal Parganas district, Bihar, c.1920. Water-colour; width 305 mm. Collected by the Norwegian missionary ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1919-1921
Extent:
4 items

283. Add Or 3412

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3412
Title:
Death, black-skinned and with black and white dress.
Scope & Content:
Death, black-skinned and with black and white dress, sits holding a club like a leg bone and smoking a hookah, an evil deer standing before him. Below, a demon holds a woman up by the hair and suspends her in the pink jaws of a fire. Reproduced: M. Archer (1970), pl.66.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

284. Add Or 3412-3417

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3412-3417
Title:
Add.Or.3412-3417 Scroll painting cut into six sections illustrating Death’s kingdom. By a jadupatua of Dumka subdivision, Santal Parganas, Bihar, c.19 ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.3412-3417 Scroll painting cut into six sections illustrating Death’s kingdom. By a jadupatua of Dumka subdivision, Santal Parganas, Bihar, c.1920. Water-colour; width 190 mm. Collected by W.G. Archer, 1944. Purchased 1974.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1919-1921
Extent:
6 items

285. Add Or 3413

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3413
Title:
Demons tormenting evil-doers
Scope & Content:
A black demon pulling out the tongue of a man ‘who told lies’; below, another demon mounting guard on a man who has straw on his head.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

286. Add Or 3414

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3414
Title:
Demons tormenting evil-doers
Scope & Content:
A black demon with pink shirt threatening a man whose wrists have been tied together so that he cannot brush aside a swarm of insects round his mouth; below, another demon sitting and lecturing a man condemned to carry on his head a large weight ‘because he would not feed his parents’.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

287. Add Or 3415

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3415
Title:
Demons tormenting evil-doers
Scope & Content:
A black demon threatening with an axe and kicking a man condemned to sit on a chair of nails ‘because he said bad things’. Below, a Santal woman with a pot tied round her neck being kicked on the shoulder by a demon ‘because she stole rice from a pot’.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

288. Add Or 3416

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3416
Title:
A man and wife who lived good lives sitting peaceably, together with demons tormenting evil-doers
Scope & Content:
A man and wife who lived good lives sitting peaceably; to the right, a man who ill-treated his maternal uncle’standing with both arms cut off at the elbows. Below, a black demon threatens with a small club a woman condemned to carry a rice-pounder hung round her neck ‘because she stole rice’ an...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

289. Add Or 3417

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3417
Title:
An evil doer with his wrists tied. Below, a demon pulling out hair
Scope & Content:
An evil-doer with wrists tied, a second evil-doer being strangled by a demon. Below, to the left, a demon pulling out hair, to the right, a second demon stringing up an evil-doer and suspending him head downwards. Note: Crimes or offences in the above unspecified. Remaining glosses supplied b...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

290. Add Or 3418

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3418
Title:
Part of a scroll painting illustrating Death's kingdom. Artist(s): Malik Chitrakar (fl.1920s)
Scope & Content:
Part of a scroll painting illustrating Death’s kingdom. By Malik Citrakar, village Bora, Banskuli circle, Dumka subdivision, Santal Parganas district, Bihar, c.1920 Inscribed in Bengali characters: ‘sri pranesvara’ [citra]’kar malik’ (The revered God of Death. (By) Malik [Citra]kar) Water-co...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item