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Collection Area Visual Arts Archive Reference (shelfmark) Mss Eur F191

1251. Mss Eur F191/332(1246)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F191/332(1246)
Title:
From Erode: On the terrace adjoining the work-room. An old temple singer and dancer, really good in both arts. Photographer: Bake, Arnold Adriaan
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of an old temple singer and dancer, really good in both arts.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jun 1938
Extent:
1 item

1252. Mss Eur F191/332(1247)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F191/332(1247)
Title:
From Erode: On the terrace adjoining the work-room. An old temple singer and dancer, really good in both arts. Photographer: Bake, Arnold Adriaan
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait of an old temple singer and dancer, really good in both arts.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jun 1938
Extent:
1 item

1253. Mss Eur F191/332(1248)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F191/332(1248)
Title:
From Erode: A rather rare instrument, Gotuvadyam. It looks like a Vina, but it has no frets (most string instruments in India have frets). The right hand has plectra on the first, middle and third finger. The strings are pressed down by a cyllinder held in the left hand, which moves along the strings as if playing a Hawaiian guitar but without that instrument's mewing sound. The legend says that two devine musicians, I think Narada and Tamburu, had a quarrel: who was the best vina player? Th...
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography View of a rather rare instrument, Gotuvadyam. It looks like a Vina, but it has no frets (most string instruments in India have frets). The right hand has plectra on the first, middle and third finger. The strings are pressed down by a cyllinder held in the left hand,...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jun 1938
Extent:
1 item

1254. Mss Eur F191/332(1249)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F191/332(1249)
Title:
From Erode: A rather rare instrument, Gotuvadyam. It looks like a Vina, but it has no frets (most string instruments in India have frets). The right hand has plectra on the first, middle and third finger. The strings are pressed down by a cyllinder held in the left hand, which moves along the strings as if playing a Hawaiian guitar but without that instrument's mewing sound. The legend says that two devine musicians, I think Narada and Tamburu, had a quarrel: who was the best vina player? Th...
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of musician at Gotuvadyam. It looks like a Vina, but it has no frets (most string instruments in India have frets). The right hand has plectra on the first, middle and third finger. The strings are pressed down by a cyllinder held in the left hand, which mov...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jun 1938
Extent:
1 item

1255. Mss Eur F191/332(1250)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F191/332(1250)
Title:
From Erode: A group of South-Indian brahmins, teachers and pupils of the Sanskrit pathashala, belonging to the temple of Rameshvaram, where we heard various kinds of Sanskrit recitation. The old gentleman with the beard was a poet and composer. Bake recorded several of his poems. An immovable bulwark of medieval tradition and sharp intellect. Photographer: Bake, Arnold Adriaan
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of South-Indian brahmins, teachers and pupils of the Sanskrit pathashala, belonging to the temple of Rameshvaram, where we heard various kinds of Sanskrit recitation. The old gentleman with the beard was a poet and composer. Bake recorded several of hi...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jun 1938
Extent:
1 item

1256. Mss Eur F191/332(1251)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F191/332(1251)
Title:
From Erode: A group of South-Indian brahmins, teachers and pupils of the Sanskrit pathashala, belonging to the temple of Rameshvaram, where we heard various kinds of Sanskrit recitation. The old gentleman with the beard was a poet and composer. Bake recorded several of his poems. An immovable bulwark of medieval tradition and sharp intellect. Photographer: Bake, Arnold Adriaan
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of South-Indian brahmins, teachers and pupils of the Sanskrit pathashala, belonging to the temple of Rameshvaram, where we heard various kinds of Sanskrit recitation. The old gentleman with the beard was a poet and composer. Bake recorded several of hi...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jun 1938
Extent:
1 item

1257. Mss Eur F191/332(1252)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F191/332(1252)
Title:
From Erode: Dances at the girl's school in Madura. Photographer: Bake, Arnold Adriaan
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography View of dances at the girl's school in Madura.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jun 1938
Extent:
1 item

1258. Mss Eur F191/332(1253)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F191/332(1253)
Title:
From Erode: Dances at the girl's school in Madura. Photographer: Bake, Arnold Adriaan
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography View of dances at the girl's school in Madura.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jun 1938
Extent:
1 item

1259. Mss Eur F191/332(1254)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F191/332(1254)
Title:
From Erode: In the temple in Madura. A blind boy-singer on the back of a stone elephant in the temple court. These singers are not brahmins but Velalas, a much lower caste. Photographer: Bake, Arnold Adriaan
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait; view of a blind boy-singer on the back of a stone elephant in the temple in Madurai, India.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jun 1938
Extent:
1 item

1260. Mss Eur F191/332(1255)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F191/332(1255)
Title:
From Erode: In the temple in Madura. Various groups who sang for Bakes. Photographer: Bake, Arnold Adriaan
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of various groups who sang for Bakes, taken at the temple in Madura.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jun 1938
Extent:
1 item