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241. Add Or 3377

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Add Or 3377
Title:
Rama and Sita enthroned, Lakshmana, Jambavat and two attendants beside them. Artist(s): Rupchand Kha (fl. c.1850)
Scope & Content:
A painting illustrating a religious subject. Rama and Sita enthroned, Laksmana, Hanuman, Jambavat and two attendants beside them. Variant on, or perhaps a near precursor of Kalighat painting, c.1850. By Rupchand Kha, Kejata village, Bengal. Inscribed in Bengali: ‘sri rupcand kha village keja...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

242. Add Or 3378

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Add Or 3378
Title:
The Tarakeshwar murder: the Mahant sees Elokeshi at the temple; Nabin murders his wife Elokeshi.
Scope & Content:
The Tarakesvar murder. To the left, the Mahant, Madhav Giri, sees Elokesi at the Tarakesvar temple; to the right, Nabin murders his wife Elokesi with a fish-knife. By a karmakar, Calcutta, c.1875-80. Engraved in Bengali characters: (1) ‘sri madhavgiri mohanta’ (Mahant Madhav Giri); ‘(2) teleb...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1875-1880
Extent:
1 Item

243. Add Or 3379

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Add Or 3379
Title:
A large tiger with yellow skin, red tongue and black spots mounted by a Muslim figure.. Artist(s): Babulal and Surendra Chitrakar (fl. 1930)
Scope & Content:
A large ‘tiger’ with yellow skin, red tongue and black spots mounted by a Muslim figure, bareheaded, holding a rosary and club. Below, three Muslim worshippers standing before a conical structure, two of them pulling both ends of a scarf round their necks. Reproduced: M. Archer (1970), pl.70. ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

244. Add Or 3380

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Add Or 3380
Title:
Scenes at a fair ground. Artist(s): Babulal and Surendra Chitrakar (fl. 1930)
Scope & Content:
Scenes at a fair ground. At the top on either side, two large figures wearing red jackets, dancing breeches and peacock feathers; the figure to the left holding a long cylindrical drum ‘(tumdak’),’ the figure to the right holding a stout stick. Between them, two small Santal figures executing ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

245. Add Or 3381

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Add Or 3381
Title:
Scene at a fair ground.. Artist(s): Babulal and Surendra Chitrakar (fl. 1930)
Scope & Content:
Scenes at a fair ground. Five Santal girls and seven boys dancing at a jatra. In the top row, small figures, explained by the artists as ‘shown small but really grown up’, are trying to pull the girls away; in the bottom row a third boy also pulling at a girl. To the left two drummers, one wi...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

246. Add Or 3382

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Add Or 3382
Title:
Death, a large seated figure with black face, with a smaller demon attending them.
Scope & Content:
Death, a large seated figure with black face, with a smaller figure, a demon, attending him. He holds a book of punishments in his right hand and a club for smiting evil-doers in his left.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

247. Add Or 3382-3383

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Add Or 3382-3383
Title:
Add.Or.3382-3383 Scroll painting cut into two sections illustrating Death’s kingdom. By a jadupatua of village Sonajori, Pakaur subdivision, Santal Pa ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.3382-3383 Scroll painting cut into two sections illustrating Death’s kingdom. By a jadupatua of village Sonajori, Pakaur subdivision, Santal Parganas district, Bihar, c.1920. Water-colour; width 280 mm. Collected by W.G. Archer, 1944. Purchased 1974. Note: Punishments interpreted by...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1919-1921
Extent:
2 items

248. Add Or 3383

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Add Or 3383
Title:
Evil-doers receiving punishment from Death's minions
Scope & Content:
Evil-doers receiving punishment from Death’s minions. Above, a large demon with yellow pants, black skin and huge club suspending by the hair over a fire a woman ‘who would not give fire to her neighbours’, the fire shown as a pair of red jaws. To the left, a man walking away, an iron grill on...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

249. Add Or 3384

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Add Or 3384
Title:
Three gods on lotuses
Scope & Content:
Three ‘gods’ on lotuses: the centre one with two heads in profile and with four arms, the left standing and facing right, the right seated with face three-quarter view. Note: Interpreted by Jogendra Citrakar of village Jogidih, Dumka subdivision, Santal Parganas, as Visnu, Brahma and Siva but r...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

250. Add Or 3384-3394

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Add Or 3384-3394
Title:
Add.Or.3384-3394 Scroll painting cut into eleven sections illustrating the Santal creation story and Death’s kingdom. By a jadupatua of village Sonajo ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.3384-3394 Scroll painting cut into eleven sections illustrating the Santal creation story and Death’s kingdom. By a jadupatua of village Sonajori, Pakaur subdivision, Santal Parganas district, Bihar, c.1920. Water-colour; width 325 mm. Collected by W.G. Archer, 1944. Purchased 1974.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1919-1921
Extent:
11 items