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251. Add Or 3404

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Add Or 3404
Title:
The Baha festival.. Artist(s): Girish Jadupatua (c.1930)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. (1) Four Santal women with sprigs of sal-tree blossom in their hair, dancing the Baha dance, accompanied by three Santal drummers (two beating the ‘tumdak’,’ one the ‘tamak).’ A fourth Santal boy attempts to measure the height of the leading woman, a fifth clutches the hand ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

252. Add Or 3408

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Add Or 3408
Title:
The Baha festival
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. A bullock standing with its head in a cleft stick while a Santal holds its tall and a second Santal prepares to fell it with the butt-end of an axe.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

253. Add Or 3409

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3409
Title:
The Baha festival
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. A long brown python held aloft by two Santals, the first of whom prepares to cut off its head with a curved knife.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

254. Add Or 3410

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3410
Title:
The Baha festival
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Brewing rice-beer. A seated Santal with four leaf-cups, a second Santal stirring the contents of a large pot with a stick. Below, a Santal falling down drunk, a second Santal succouring him.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

255. Add Or 3419

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Add Or 3419
Title:
Scroll painting illustrating the Baha festival. - two majestic figures with a small female
Scope & Content:
Two majestic figures standing on either side of a short female figure; the left figure with blue face and chest, the right figure with white face and chest; both figures with upraised stump-like arms ending in knobs. Yellow aurioles. Note: Modelled on the Puri Jagannatha trio but signifying to...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

256. Add Or 3420

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Add Or 3420
Title:
Scroll painting of the Baha festival. - villagers on their way to the sacred grove
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Four villagers, including the ‘naeke’ (priest) and ‘kudam naeke’ (field priest), carrying a dagger, winnowing fan, pot and a basket, on their way to the sacred grove. Below, the priest kneeling under a tree beside an up-fumed battle-axe and holding a chicken about to be sacr...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

257. Add Or 3421

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Add Or 3421
Title:
Scroll painting of the Baha festival. - returning from the grove
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. The party returning from the grove. The ‘naeke’ (priest) carrying a spray of sal tree blossom in his right hand and a winnowing fan under his right arm followed by two villagers, one with a basket, the other with a pot. A Santal girl, a spray of sal tree blossom in her hair...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

258. Add Or 3422

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3422
Title:
Scroll painting of the Baha festival.- killing the bullock and python
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Killing a bullock and python. Above a bullock is led to a tree, a Santal holding its tail and two other Santals standing before it, with upraised battle-axes. Below, a python, its head in a cleft tree trunk, is about to be slaughtered by three men who stand in a row with ra...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

259. Add Or 3423

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3423
Title:
Scroll painting of the Baha festival.- Santals brewing rice beer
Scope & Content:
Merry-making at the Baha festival. A Santal brewing rice-beer. Below, a Santal striving to support a second Santal who has fallen down drunk. To the right, a third Santal tending a pot.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

260. Add Or 3444

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3444
Title:
The Baha festival - three figures. Artist(s): Jitu Chitrakar (fl.1920s)
Scope & Content:
Two skirted figures in brown and reddish orange, with short knob-tipped stumps as arms, standing on either side of a female figure, thinner but only slightly less tall. The left figure with black head, the right figure with brown head. Below, lotus flowers and stalks (?). Note: For Puri paint...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

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