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1. Add Or 3140

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3140
Title:
Scroll painting depicting the Baha festival - figures. Artist(s): Jogendra Chitrakar (fl.1945)
Scope & Content:
Two majestic figures with round heads, legs splayed apart and rudimentary arms sprouting from their shoulders, standing on either side of a slightly smaller female figure with normal hands and arms; the left figure with white face and chest, the right figure with blue face and belly. Above them...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1945
Extent:
1 Item

2. Add Or 3140-3146

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3140-3146
Title:
Add.Or.3140-3146 Scroll painting cut into seven sections depicting the Baha festival. By Jogendra Citrakar, village Jogidih, Dumka subdivision, Santal ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.3140-3146 Scroll painting cut into seven sections depicting the Baha festival. By Jogendra Citrakar, village Jogidih, Dumka subdivision, Santal Parganas district, Bihar, 1945. Water-colour; width 320 mm. Collected by W.G. Archer, 1945. Presented 1969.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1945-1945
Extent:
7 items

3. Add Or 3141

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3141
Title:
Scroll painting depicting the Baha festival - monkey. Artist(s): Jogendra Chitrakar (fl.1945)
Scope & Content:
A white monkey-like figure with black markings kneeling before a bird with long beak, yellow head and legs and white plumage striped with red. Note: Identified to Santal audiences as Harur bonga addressing Garur bonga.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1945
Extent:
1 Item

4. Add Or 3142

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3142
Title:
Scroll painting depicting the Baha festival - Santals approaching Sengel bonga. Artist(s): Jogendra Chitrakar (fl.1945)
Scope & Content:
Four Santals approaching a red, three-headed figure in yellow dhoti seated on a white bird with yellow goose-like beak. Below, five Santals standing in a row with arms upraised. Note: Identified as Santals approaching Sengel bonga later proceeding to the sacred grove.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1945
Extent:
1 Item

5. Add Or 3143

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3143
Title:
Scroll painting depicting the Baha festival - sacrificing. Artist(s): Jogendra Chitrakar (fl.1945)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Above, a tree with three pieces of cloth in its branches. At foot, the ‘naeke’ (priest) offering a chicken, three sacrificial circles made of flour, an axe and a pot beside him. Behind him, two villagers. On the other side of the tree, two Santals in a state of trance, sym...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1945
Extent:
1 Item

6. Add Or 3144

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3144
Title:
Scroll painting depicting the Baha festival - making rice beer. Artist(s): Jogendra Chitrakar (fl.1945)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Above, making rice-beer and drinking it. Below, four Santal women dancing accompanied by two drummers, one on the left with a ‘tamak,’ the other with a ‘tumdak’.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1945
Extent:
1 Item

7. Add Or 3145

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3145
Title:
Scroll painting depicting the Baha festival - rice beer and bullock. Artist(s): Jogendra Chitrakar (fl.1945)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Above, a Santal making rice-beer, five others drinking, two of them lying drunk. Below, a bullock tied to a tree, a Santal holding its tail and lifting a small stick. To the right, two Santal dancers with sticks and shields, one drummer with a ‘tamak.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1945
Extent:
1 Item

8. Add Or 3146

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3146
Title:
Scroll painting depicting the Baha festival - dancing and shooting at a bird. Artist(s): Jogendra Chitrakar (fl.1945)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Three Santal women dancing, accompanied by two men playing the flute. Below, two Santal boys shooting with bow and arrow at a bird target at the top of a tree or pole. Note: During the Baha festival, arrows are shot into a mahua tree and a sal tree, prior to gathering up th...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1945
Extent:
1 Item

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