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371. Add Or 3486

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Add Or 3486
Title:
A blue and white monkey figure addressing a goose-like bird. Below, a brown skinned, four-headed figure, a princely figure kneeling and supplicating before him.. Artist(s): Praneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
A blue and white monkey-like figure with out-stretched arms addressing a goose-like bird with yellow head and beak and black and blue plumage. Below, a brown-skinned, four-headed figure with two arms, seated on the ground, a princely figure with brown cap and scarf and blue tunic kneeling and s...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

372. Add Or 3487

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3487
Title:
The Baha festival - procession to the grove. Artist(s): Praneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Above, the priest with three assistants carrying winnowing fans, a basket and an axe, proceeding to the sacred grove. Below, the grove itself, indicated by three schematic trees, with the party grouped in the centre. On the right, the priest sacrifices a chicken on the uptu...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

373. Add Or 3488

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3488
Title:
The Baha festival - procession from the grove. Artist(s): Praneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Three of the party returning from the sacred grove, carrying a pot, winnowing fan and basket, a Santal woman washing the feet of the leader (the priest). Below, a Santal man dancing accompanied by three drummers, two with tamaks, one with a ‘tumdak’.’ At the bottom, four Sa...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

374. Add Or 3489

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3489
Title:
The Baha festival - bullock and python killing. Artist(s): Praneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. A white bull, its tail held by a Santal, confronts another Santal who prepares to fell it with the butt-end of an axe. Below, a young python, its head resting on a tree, is supported by two Santals with knives. To the right, two Santals cooking python meat. Below, a Santal...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

375. Add Or 3490

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3490
Title:
The Baha festival - sacrifice and rice -beer making. Artist(s): Praneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. A Santal carrying on a yoke two pots, three other Santals killing a goat by beheading it with an axe. Below, in three lines, twelve Santals, making, serving and drinking rice-beer, the foremost of them a bearded drinker (perhaps the ‘manjhi’ or headman).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

376. Add Or 3491

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Add Or 3491
Title:
Krishna stealing the milkmaids clothes.. Artist(s): Praneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
Krishna stealing the milkmaids’ clothes. Seven nude girls stand in water, the arms of five of them upraised. Above them Krishna sits on the branch of a tree, playing the flute, the milkmaids’ clothes hanging on the branches.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

377. Add Or 3492

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3492
Title:
Two majestic figures, with large heads, standing on either side of a female figure.. Artist(s): Malindra Chitrakar (fl.1940s)
Scope & Content:
Two majestic figures, with large heads, their legs apart and swathed in yellow dhotis, standing on either side of a female figure in blue blouse and red sari and veil; the left figure with white face and chest; the right figure with blue face and chest; both with rudimentary stump-like arms risi...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

378. Add Or 3492-3498

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Add Or 3492-3498
Title:
Add.Or.3492-3498 Scroll painting cut into seven sections depicting the Baha festival, the tigers’ god and Death’s kingdom. By Malindra Citrakar, villa ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.3492-3498 Scroll painting cut into seven sections depicting the Baha festival, the tigers’ god and Death’s kingdom. By Malindra Citrakar, village Bora, Banskuli circle, Dumka subdivision, Santal Parganas district, Bihar, c.1940. Water-colour; width 280 mm. Collected by W.G. Archer, 19...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1939-1941
Extent:
7 items

379. Add Or 3493

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3493
Title:
A four-headed figure seated on a stool , a small duck-like bird beneath him; a figure supplicating with an attendant standing behind. Below, 18 bleeding heads. Artist(s): Malindra Chitrakar (fl.1940s)
Scope & Content:
A four-headed figure with red skin and yellow dhoti, seated on a high, wide stool, a small duck-like bird beneath him; to the left, a figure with cap and scarf supplicating before him, an attendant standing behind. Below, two rows of nine severed heads with ribbon-like streams of blood flowing ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

380. Add Or 3494

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3494
Title:
The Baha festival - procession. Artist(s): Malindra Chitrakar (fl.1940s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. The priest with three Santal villagers, carrying an axe, winnowing fan, buffalo horn and baskets, proceeding to the sacred grove. Below a tree, beside which the priest offers a chicken for sacrifice, his assistant standing behind him, to the left, a Santal is ‘possessed’ by ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item