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11. Add Or 4385

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Add Or 4385
Title:
A Saiva brahmin, wearing short dhoti and uttariya, and marked with three parallel lines of white ash on forehead and upper body, and carrying a manuscript. He also has a red bindu under the forehead mark.
Scope & Content:
A Saiva brahmin, wearing short dhoti and ‘uttariya’, and marked with three parallel lines of white ash on forehead and upper body, and carrying a manuscript. He also has a red ‘bindu’ under the forehead mark. Inscribed below in pencil: ‘Shivite’. Note: Also described opposite, where Mackenzie...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

12. Add Or 4375

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Add Or 4375
Title:
Four heads on one sheet of Smarta brahmins.. Above, a bearded man wearing a wide-crowned hat, and his bejewelled wife, neither wearing sect marks. Below, a younger man with blue hat and a white bindu on his forehead, while his wife has a red one.
Scope & Content:
Four heads on one sheet. Above, a bearded man wearing a wide-crowned hat, and his bejewelled wife, neither wearing sect marks. Below, a younger man with blue hat and a white ‘bindu’ on his forehead, while his wife has a red one. Inscribed in pencil on album page: ‘Smartha’. Note: ‘Smartas’, ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

13. Add Or 4383

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Add Or 4383
Title:
A Lingayat, wearing coat and turban and a locket containing his emblematic lingam, and Saiva sect marks: ashes smeared across his forehead and three horizontal lines on his neck.
Scope & Content:
A Lingayat, wearing coat and turban and a locket containing his emblematic ‘lingam’, and Saiva sect marks: ashes smeared across his forehead and three horizontal lines on his neck. Inscribed below in pencil: ‘Lingaite’. Note: Described opposite: ‘Both men and women ... wear a silver casket at...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

14. Add Or 4372

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Add Or 4372
Title:
Four individual heads: Above, a Marwari in purple turban and his richly bejewelled wife. Below, a barber in a red turban with a Tenkalai tilaka and his wife.
Scope & Content:
Four individual heads: Above, a Marwari in purple turban and his richly bejewelled wife. Inscribed in pencil: ‘No. 1 Maharwadi No. 1 Wife’. Below, a barber in a red turban with a Tenkalai ‘tilaka’ and his wife. Inscribed in pencil: ‘No. 3 Barber No. 3 His Wife.’. Inscribed in ink opposite: ‘...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

15. Add Or 4381

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4381
Title:
A Tenkalai mendicant wearing turban and coat over his dhoti, beating a double-ended drum, and with a gaily bedecked bull behind him.
Scope & Content:
A Tenkalai mendicant wearing turban and coat over his dhoti, beating a double-ended drum, and with a gaily bedecked bull behind him. Inscribed below in ink: ‘Vishnuite Mendicant’; and opposite: ‘Vishnuite Mendicant who goes about with the sacred white Bull bedecked with coloured clothes, tags, ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

16. Add Or 4376

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4376
Title:
Four heads on one sheet. Above, a man with mutton-chop whiskers and a blue fez, and his jewelled wife, both without sect marks. Below, a white-bearded, low-caste man, and his wife, neither marked. Possibly lay followers of Madhvacarya.
Scope & Content:
Four heads on one sheet. Above, a man with mutton-chop whiskers and a blue fez, and his jewelled wife, both without sect marks. Below, a white-bearded, low-caste man, and his wife, neither marked. Inscribed below in pencil on the album page: ‘Mahdva’. Note: Possibly lay followers. For a bra...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

17. Add Or 4380

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Add Or 4380
Title:
A Tenkalai mendicant, wearing a tall pointed cap, his sectarian mark over his upper body, and with a rosary of very large berries. He carries a chowrie in a case under one arm, and is putting incense on his brazier.
Scope & Content:
Another Tenkalai mendicant, wearing a tall pointed cap, his sectarian mark over his upper body, and with a rosary of very large berries. He carries a chowrie in a case under one arm, and is putting incense on his brazier. Inscribed below in ink: ‘Vishnuite Mendicant.’ Note: With long descript...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

18. Add Or 4382

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4382
Title:
A Hindu merchant of the Tenkalai sect, wearing coat and turban, and carrying a square of cloth in one hand and an umbrella in the other.
Scope & Content:
A Hindu merchant of the Tenkalai sect, wearing coat and turban, and carrying a square of cloth in one hand and an umbrella in the other.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

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