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2. Add Or 4379
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- Add Or 4379
- Title:
- A dasari mendicant, wearing the Tenkalai sect-mark, rudraksa rosaries, and various brass gongs slung about him, including one with Hanuman engraved upon it, blowing a conch and holding an incense brazier.
- Scope & Content:
- A ‘dasari’ mendicant, wearing the Tenkalai sect-mark, ‘rudraksa’ rosaries, and various brass gongs slung about him, including one with Hanuman engraved upon it, blowing a conch and holding an incense brazier. Inscribed below in ink: ‘Vishnuite Mendicant.’ Note: With long description opposite.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- c 1850
- Extent:
- 1 Item
3. Add Or 4371
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 4371
- Title:
- A page with studies of four heads, of lay Vaishnavas and their wives.
- Scope & Content:
- A page with studies of four heads, of lay Vaishnavas and their wives. In the upper pair, the man, who wears a red Maratha turban, wears the ‘tilaka’ of the Tenkalai Shri-Vaishnavas, of white, U-shaped, extending downwards onto the nose, and a flame-like yellow ‘bindu’ within. His wife has a si...
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- c 1850
- Extent:
- 1 Item
4. Add Or 4387
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 4387
- Title:
- A toty, or village messenger, dressed in white and with a staff.
- Scope & Content:
- A toty, or village messenger, dressed in white and with a staff. Inscribed below in pencil:’ Toty;’ and opposite in ink’: Toty or Viulivadi(?) He is the village headman’s henchman - knows all the ins and outs of each villager’s life and has many privileges and perquisites ...’ Note: Hobson-Job...
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- c 1850
- Extent:
- 1 Item
5. Add Or 4386
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 4386
- Title:
- A radaree or road-keeper, wearing a loosely wound garment round his upper body and a purple turban.
- Scope & Content:
- A radaree or road-keeper, wearing a loosely wound garment round his upper body and a purple turban. Inscribed below in pencil: ‘Rahdari’; and opposite in ink: ‘Rahdari, i.e. guide to the roads, one of the village officials whose duty is to direct travellers on their way ... Ordinarily, they we...
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- c 1850
- Extent:
- 1 Item
6. Add Or 4372
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 4372
- Title:
- Four individual heads: Above, a Marwari in purple turban and his richly bejewelled wife. Below, a barber in a red turban with a Tenkalai tilaka and his wife.
- Scope & Content:
- Four individual heads: Above, a Marwari in purple turban and his richly bejewelled wife. Inscribed in pencil: ‘No. 1 Maharwadi No. 1 Wife’. Below, a barber in a red turban with a Tenkalai ‘tilaka’ and his wife. Inscribed in pencil: ‘No. 3 Barber No. 3 His Wife.’. Inscribed in ink opposite: ‘...
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- c 1850
- Extent:
- 1 Item
7. Add Or 4381
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 4381
- Title:
- A Tenkalai mendicant wearing turban and coat over his dhoti, beating a double-ended drum, and with a gaily bedecked bull behind him.
- Scope & Content:
- A Tenkalai mendicant wearing turban and coat over his dhoti, beating a double-ended drum, and with a gaily bedecked bull behind him. Inscribed below in ink: ‘Vishnuite Mendicant’; and opposite: ‘Vishnuite Mendicant who goes about with the sacred white Bull bedecked with coloured clothes, tags, ...
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- c 1850
- Extent:
- 1 Item
8. Add Or 4380
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 4380
- Title:
- A Tenkalai mendicant, wearing a tall pointed cap, his sectarian mark over his upper body, and with a rosary of very large berries. He carries a chowrie in a case under one arm, and is putting incense on his brazier.
- Scope & Content:
- Another Tenkalai mendicant, wearing a tall pointed cap, his sectarian mark over his upper body, and with a rosary of very large berries. He carries a chowrie in a case under one arm, and is putting incense on his brazier. Inscribed below in ink: ‘Vishnuite Mendicant.’ Note: With long descript...
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- c 1850
- Extent:
- 1 Item
9. Add Or 4382
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 4382
- Title:
- A Hindu merchant of the Tenkalai sect, wearing coat and turban, and carrying a square of cloth in one hand and an umbrella in the other.
- Scope & Content:
- A Hindu merchant of the Tenkalai sect, wearing coat and turban, and carrying a square of cloth in one hand and an umbrella in the other.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- c 1850
- Extent:
- 1 Item