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421. Add Or 3529-3535

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Add Or 3529-3535
Title:
Add.Or.3529-3535 Part of a scroll painting cut into seven sections illustrating the Santal clans, Baghut bonga and the Santal creation story. By Madhu ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.3529-3535 Part of a scroll painting cut into seven sections illustrating the Santal clans, Baghut bonga and the Santal creation story. By Madhu Citrakar of village Pipla, Gaichand circle, Jamtara subdivision, Santal Parganas district, Bihar, c.1930. Water-colour; width 205 mm. Collect...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1929-1931
Extent:
7 items

422. Add Or 3530

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3530
Title:
Four Soren Sepoys.. Below, a hunting scene.. Artist(s): Madhu Chitrakar (fl.1930s)
Scope & Content:
Four Soren Sepoys (members of the soldier clan) yellow-skinned, bare-footed, wearing black and white uniforms and carrying muskets. Below, a hunting scene; a spotted yellow deer, staring over its shoulder at a black and white dog about to bite its tall.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

423. Add Or 3531

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3531
Title:
Hunting scene.. Artist(s): Madhu Chitrakar (fl.1930s)
Scope & Content:
Hunting scene. A yellow deer pursued by the same black and white dog as in above. Below them, sketch in red for a horse up-side down; above it, a version of the red horse in Add.Or.3529.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

424. Add Or 3532

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3532
Title:
Yellow tiger surmounted by a yellow rider.. Artist(s): Madhu Chitrakar (fl.1930s)
Scope & Content:
A yellow ‘tiger’ with huge head, red and black eyes and black spots surmounted by a yellow rider, nude except for a red and white scarf round his shoulders. Below, a bulging structure radiating spikes. Note: The rider identified by Laku Citrakar as ‘Baghut bonga riding on a leopard’ and the st...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

425. Add Or 3533

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3533
Title:
The first Santal parents, and their seven sons.. Artist(s): Madhu Chitrakar (fl.1930s)
Scope & Content:
The first Santal parents. A woman lying down; below, a man and woman standing. Beneath them, in two rows, seven male figures four with axes, three with bows and arrows. NOTE:Identified by Laku Citrakar as Pilcu Haram and Pilcu Budhi,the first parents,and the subsidiary figures as their seven ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

426. Add Or 3534

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3534
Title:
Pilcu Budhi and her seven daughters. Artist(s): Madhu Chitrakar (fl.1930s)
Scope & Content:
Eight women standing below a banyan tree. Note: Identified by Laku Citrakar as Pilcu Budhi and her seven daughters. In the alternative, as Pilcu Budhi’s eight daughters. Compare the Sohrae legend (W.G. Archer (1974), 198-99) where Sohrae is the eldest of the eight daughters and remains unmarr...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

427. Add Or 3535

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3535
Title:
Seven male figures, the sons of Pilcu Budhi and Pilcu Haram, making rice beer; and their parents. Artist(s): Madhu Chitrakar (fl.1930s)
Scope & Content:
Seven male figures, the sons of Pilcu Haram and Pilcu Budhi, making rice beer and getting drunk. Below, Pilcu Haram and Pilcu Budhi setting out alone for the forest. At the bottom, sleeping together in a hut.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

428. Add Or 3536

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3536
Title:
Santal creation myth.. Artist(s): Madhu Chitrakar (fl.1930s)
Scope & Content:
A three-headed four-armed figure standing beside a goose-like bird, approached by a royal figure with long scarf attended by a servant who holds a fan above him. Below, two birds and a crab-like creature. At the bottom to the right four Santal girls, to the left, three Santal boys. Reproduced...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

429. Add Or 3536-3540, Add Or 3827

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3536-3540, Add Or 3827
Title:
Add.Or.3536-3540; Add.Or.3827 Scroll painting cut into six sections illustrating the Baha festival and the Santal creation story. By Madhu Citrakar of ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.3536-3540; Add.Or.3827 Scroll painting cut into six sections illustrating the Baha festival and the Santal creation story. By Madhu Citrakar of village Pipla, Gaichand circle, p.s. Jamtara, Jamtara sub-division, Santal Parganas district, Bihar, c.1930. Water-colour; width 233 mm. Coll...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1929-1931
Extent:
6 items

430. Add Or 3537

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3537
Title:
The Baha festival. - chicken sacrifice. Artist(s): Madhu Chitrakar (fl.1930s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. The priest assisted by two other Santals proceeding to the sacred grove. Below, presenting a chicken with some rice before sacrificing it. To the lower left, a Santal blowing a buffalo horn. Reproduced: M. Archer (1970), pl.58.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item