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261. Add Or 3445

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Add Or 3445
Title:
The Baha festival - white monkey. Artist(s): Jitu Chitrakar (fl.1920s)
Scope & Content:
Above, a white monkey with black spots talking to a group of four Santals, two of them holding umbrellas; in their midst, a brown bird with long beak. Below three Santal men encountering a three-headed figure with orange red ‘crown’ mounted on a large brown bird; below two small Santal women. ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

262. Add Or 3446

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Add Or 3446
Title:
The Baha festival - procession to the grove. Artist(s): Jitu Chitrakar (fl.1920s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. A line of Santals, headed by the ‘naeke’ (priest), going to the ‘jaher’ (sacred grove); below, a Santal boy climbing a sal tree to throw down blossom, four other Santals standing by, the priest sacrificing a chicken by cutting its throat on the upturned edge of a battle-axe. ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

263. Add Or 3447

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Add Or 3447
Title:
The Baha festival - dancing. Artist(s): Jitu Chitrakar (fl.1920s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha Festival. Five Santal women dancing the Baha dance with sprays of sal-tree blossom in their hair, accompanied by two Santal drummers, the left one with a ‘tumdak’,’ the other with a ‘tamak.’ Below the Baha dance continuing, a woman with a spray of sal-tree blossom in her hair, four me...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

264. Add Or 3448

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Add Or 3448
Title:
The Baha festival - sacrifice of bullock and python. Artist(s): Jitu Chitrakar (fl.1920s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Killing a bullock and python. Above, a bullock is led to a tree, a Santal holding its tall and another Santal preparing to fell it with the butt-end of an axe. To the left, a Santal with a knife; up in the tree, another Santal. Below, three Santals, two of them with knives...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

265. Add Or 3449

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Add Or 3449
Title:
The Baha festival - rice beer party. Artist(s): Jitu Chitrakar (fl.1920s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Three Santal women and six Santal men carousing on ricebeer. One of the men drunk, another helping to pick him up.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

266. Add Or 3451

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Add Or 3451
Title:
Figures drumming and dancing. Artist(s): Jitu Chitrakar (fl.1920s)
Scope & Content:
Figures drumming and dancing. Above, two tall figures, one of them with a chain; between them a smaller figure leaping around with small sticks. Below, a line of three men, the first with a gong, the second with a ‘tamak,’ the third with ‘a tumdak’.’ All have blackish grey skins.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

267. Add Or 3452

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Add Or 3452
Title:
Four figures with swords, Hindu goddess Kali, two attending figures sucking blood from two human heads.. Artist(s): Jitu Chitrakar (fl.1920s)
Scope & Content:
At the top, four figures with sword sticks. Below the Hindu goddess, Kali, black with red tongue and aureole, four-armed standing on a prone figure holding two freshly-cut human heads (one of which is being gnawed by a dog); on either side two attending figures sucking blood from two human head...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

268. Add Or 3453

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Add Or 3453
Title:
Hor Raja mounted on a brown horse.. Artist(s): Paneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1920-1930)
Scope & Content:
Hor Raja (chief of the Santal tribe) mounted on a brown horse.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

269. Add Or 3454

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Add Or 3454
Title:
Three Soren sepoys.. Artist(s): Paneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1920-1930)
Scope & Content:
Three Soren sepoys (members of the soldier clan) marching in tunics and trousers, wearing boots and carrying clubs on their left shoulders.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

270. Add Or 3455

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3455
Title:
Four Hembrom courtiers or princes.. Artist(s): Paneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1920-1930)
Scope & Content:
Four Hembrom courtiers or princes, wearing shoes and trousers, their right arms upraised as if hailing a ruler. Below, a spotted deer looking over its shoulder at a dog biting its tail, a second dog, thinly delineated, following.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

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