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251. 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

252. 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

253. Add Or 3412

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3412
Title:
Death, black-skinned and with black and white dress.
Scope & Content:
Death, black-skinned and with black and white dress, sits holding a club like a leg bone and smoking a hookah, an evil deer standing before him. Below, a demon holds a woman up by the hair and suspends her in the pink jaws of a fire. Reproduced: M. Archer (1970), pl.66.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

254. Add Or 3413

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3413
Title:
Demons tormenting evil-doers
Scope & Content:
A black demon pulling out the tongue of a man ‘who told lies’; below, another demon mounting guard on a man who has straw on his head.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

255. Add Or 3414

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3414
Title:
Demons tormenting evil-doers
Scope & Content:
A black demon with pink shirt threatening a man whose wrists have been tied together so that he cannot brush aside a swarm of insects round his mouth; below, another demon sitting and lecturing a man condemned to carry on his head a large weight ‘because he would not feed his parents’.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

256. Add Or 3415

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3415
Title:
Demons tormenting evil-doers
Scope & Content:
A black demon threatening with an axe and kicking a man condemned to sit on a chair of nails ‘because he said bad things’. Below, a Santal woman with a pot tied round her neck being kicked on the shoulder by a demon ‘because she stole rice from a pot’.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

257. Add Or 3416

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3416
Title:
A man and wife who lived good lives sitting peaceably, together with demons tormenting evil-doers
Scope & Content:
A man and wife who lived good lives sitting peaceably; to the right, a man who ill-treated his maternal uncle’standing with both arms cut off at the elbows. Below, a black demon threatens with a small club a woman condemned to carry a rice-pounder hung round her neck ‘because she stole rice’ an...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

258. Add Or 3417

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3417
Title:
An evil doer with his wrists tied. Below, a demon pulling out hair
Scope & Content:
An evil-doer with wrists tied, a second evil-doer being strangled by a demon. Below, to the left, a demon pulling out hair, to the right, a second demon stringing up an evil-doer and suspending him head downwards. Note: Crimes or offences in the above unspecified. Remaining glosses supplied b...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

259. Add Or 3418

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3418
Title:
Part of a scroll painting illustrating Death's kingdom. Artist(s): Malik Chitrakar (fl.1920s)
Scope & Content:
Part of a scroll painting illustrating Death’s kingdom. By Malik Citrakar, village Bora, Banskuli circle, Dumka subdivision, Santal Parganas district, Bihar, c.1920 Inscribed in Bengali characters: ‘sri pranesvara’ [citra]’kar malik’ (The revered God of Death. (By) Malik [Citra]kar) Water-co...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

260. Add Or 3424

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3424
Title:
Krishna playing a flute. Artist(s): Jogendra Chitrakar (fl.1945)
Scope & Content:
Krishna with dark blackish-blue skin playing on a long flute, surrounded by three milkmaids; one of them (perhaps Radha) wearing a scarlet blouse, holds a lotus flower above her and touches his left hip; the others stand on either side, raising their arms. Reproduced: M. Archer (1970), pl.78.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1945
Extent:
1 Item