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201. Add Or 3043

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Add Or 3043
Title:
The Nechung oracle
Scope & Content:
The Nechung [gNas-chun] oracle. Inscribed: ‘Dépungnéchung’ [hBras-spuns gNas-chun]’ a Gunpo about 2 coss from Lassa.’ Note: Drepung, hBass-spuns, is four miles West of Lhasa: Nechung, gNas-chun, about half a mile south of Drepung, is the monastery of the state oracle. ‘See’ Nebesky-Wojkowitz:...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1844-1862
Extent:
1 Item

202. Add Or 3045

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Add Or 3045
Title:
Prayer scroll with six panels
Scope & Content:
Prayer scroll with six panels. By a Tibetan artist, mid-19th century. The panels contain circular patterns inscribed with the Tibetan characters ‘A’, ‘Su’, ‘Ni’, ‘Tri’, ‘Pre’, and ‘Du’. Gouache on cloth with silk brocade ends on rollers; 48 by 7 ins. Presented by Brian Houghton Hodgson Augus...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1820-1843
Extent:
1 Item

203. Add Or 3046

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Add Or 3046
Title:
Mandala
Scope & Content:
A Tibetan mandala. By a Tibetan artist, c.1880. Inscribed in Tibetan characters with points of the compass. Pen-and-ink and water-colour; 10.75 by 10.75 ins. Circumstances of acquisition unrecorded.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 Item

204. Add Or 3140

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Add Or 3140
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Scroll painting depicting the Baha festival - figures. Artist(s): Jogendra Chitrakar (fl.1945)
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Two majestic figures with round heads, legs splayed apart and rudimentary arms sprouting from their shoulders, standing on either side of a slightly smaller female figure with normal hands and arms; the left figure with white face and chest, the right figure with blue face and belly. Above them...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1945
Extent:
1 Item

205. Add Or 3141

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Add Or 3141
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Scroll painting depicting the Baha festival - monkey. Artist(s): Jogendra Chitrakar (fl.1945)
Scope & Content:
A white monkey-like figure with black markings kneeling before a bird with long beak, yellow head and legs and white plumage striped with red. Note: Identified to Santal audiences as Harur bonga addressing Garur bonga.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1945
Extent:
1 Item

206. Add Or 3142

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Add Or 3142
Title:
Scroll painting depicting the Baha festival - Santals approaching Sengel bonga. Artist(s): Jogendra Chitrakar (fl.1945)
Scope & Content:
Four Santals approaching a red, three-headed figure in yellow dhoti seated on a white bird with yellow goose-like beak. Below, five Santals standing in a row with arms upraised. Note: Identified as Santals approaching Sengel bonga later proceeding to the sacred grove.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1945
Extent:
1 Item

207. Add Or 3143

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Add Or 3143
Title:
Scroll painting depicting the Baha festival - sacrificing. Artist(s): Jogendra Chitrakar (fl.1945)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Above, a tree with three pieces of cloth in its branches. At foot, the ‘naeke’ (priest) offering a chicken, three sacrificial circles made of flour, an axe and a pot beside him. Behind him, two villagers. On the other side of the tree, two Santals in a state of trance, sym...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1945
Extent:
1 Item

208. Add Or 3144

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Add Or 3144
Title:
Scroll painting depicting the Baha festival - making rice beer. Artist(s): Jogendra Chitrakar (fl.1945)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Above, making rice-beer and drinking it. Below, four Santal women dancing accompanied by two drummers, one on the left with a ‘tamak,’ the other with a ‘tumdak’.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1945
Extent:
1 Item

209. Add Or 3145

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Add Or 3145
Title:
Scroll painting depicting the Baha festival - rice beer and bullock. Artist(s): Jogendra Chitrakar (fl.1945)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Above, a Santal making rice-beer, five others drinking, two of them lying drunk. Below, a bullock tied to a tree, a Santal holding its tail and lifting a small stick. To the right, two Santal dancers with sticks and shields, one drummer with a ‘tamak.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1945
Extent:
1 Item

210. Add Or 3146

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Add Or 3146
Title:
Scroll painting depicting the Baha festival - dancing and shooting at a bird. Artist(s): Jogendra Chitrakar (fl.1945)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Three Santal women dancing, accompanied by two men playing the flute. Below, two Santal boys shooting with bow and arrow at a bird target at the top of a tree or pole. Note: During the Baha festival, arrows are shot into a mahua tree and a sal tree, prior to gathering up th...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1945
Extent:
1 Item

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