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1. Add Or 3401-3406

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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

2. Add Or 3403

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3403
Title:
The Baha festival.. Artist(s): Girish Jadupatua (c.1930)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Above, five villagers, including the priest, field priest and ‘godet’ (headman’s messenger) proceeding in a line carrying a winnowing-fan, a basket with three fowls and a red pot, one of them blowing on a buffalo horn and another beating a bowl-shaped hide-drum ‘(tamak).’ Be...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

3. Add Or 3406

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3406
Title:
Death's kingdom.. Artist(s): Girish Jadupatua (c.1930)
Scope & Content:
Death’s kingdom, illustrating punishments for the bad and rewards for the good. Above, Death, holding a club, and reading from his book of punishments, sentences a man (who had struck his maternal uncle) to be beaten; a demon produces the man before Death; a second demon administers the beating...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

4. Add Or 3404

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3404
Title:
The Baha festival.. Artist(s): Girish Jadupatua (c.1930)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. (1) Four Santal women with sprigs of sal-tree blossom in their hair, dancing the Baha dance, accompanied by three Santal drummers (two beating the ‘tumdak’,’ one the ‘tamak).’ A fourth Santal boy attempts to measure the height of the leading woman, a fifth clutches the hand ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

5. Add Or 3405

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3405
Title:
Death's kingdom.. Artist(s): Girish Jadupatua (c.1930)
Scope & Content:
Death’s kingdom. Above, a woman ‘who stole rice’ is made to wear a pot round her neck; a man ‘who saw straws in his neighbour’s hair but did not point them out’ is made to carry some on his own head; a man ‘who did not lend fire’ is made to carry a hearth on his head; a woman ‘who ate rice stea...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

6. Add Or 3402

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3402
Title:
A white monkey with blue mouth, hands, feet and tip of tail. Artist(s): Girish Jadupatua (c.1930)
Scope & Content:
A white monkey with blue mouth, hands, feet and tip of tail, its skin covered with small black spots. It wears a pink scarf and addresses a large stork-like bird with white neck and bluish-pink plumage. Below, a male figure with yellow skin and pink scarf, attended by a fan-bearer with dark br...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

7. 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

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