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271. Add Or 3457

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Add Or 3457
Title:
The Baha festival. Artist(s): Manjoy Chitrakar (fl.1930s)
Scope & Content:
Two majestic figures with large heads, legs wide apart and rudimentary arms, standing on either side of a small female figure; the large figure to the left with white face, the figure to the right with brown face. Inscribed at the foot in illegible Bengali characters. Note: Here regarded as Si...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

272. Add Or 3458

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Add Or 3458
Title:
The Baha festival. Artist(s): Manjoy Chitrakar (fl.1930s)
Scope & Content:
A monkey-like figure, white with black markings, springing through the air and apparently bursting through two long chains (or twisted ropes); to the left, a dark brown bird with black markings and long beak. Around them the rugged entrance of a cave (?). Below a large male figure lying drunk,...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

273. Add Or 3459

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3459
Title:
The Baha festival. Artist(s): Manjoy Chitrakar (fl.1930s)
Scope & Content:
Indra Raja (leader or ruler of the Santal tribe) standing beside a partition wall; on die other side, a figure, with four heads and four arms, wearing a composite crown and lightly prancing on the back of a brown bird with long beak and rows of teeth. Below, the priest and three assistants carr...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

274. Add Or 3460

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Add Or 3460
Title:
The Baha festival. Artist(s): Manjoy Chitrakar (fl.1930s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Two Santals officiating in the sacred grove indicated by a pair of saplings. To the left, an assistant hands the priest a fowl; to the right, the priest prepares to sacrifice two fowls on the upturned edge of an axe. Beside the tree to the right is a winnowing fan containin...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

275. Add Or 3461

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Add Or 3461
Title:
The Baha festival. Artist(s): Manjoy Chitrakar (fl.1930s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Four Santal women with sprigs of sal-tree blossom in their hair dancing the Baha dance, accompanied by two drummers, the upper with ‘a tumdak’,’ the lower with a ‘tamak.’ Below, to the right a white male figure with long hair.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

276. Add Or 3462

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3462
Title:
The Baha festival. Artist(s): Manjoy Chitrakar (fl.1930s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. A line of nine Santal boys and men, their right arms upraised, acclaiming the priest at the end of the Baha festival. Below, a bull with its neck in the cleft trunk of a tree, its tail held by a Santal boy. To the left, a Santal raising a battle-axe with which to fell it.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

277. Add Or 3463

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3463
Title:
The Baha festival. Artist(s): Manjoy Chitrakar (fl.1930s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Two Santals supporting a python whose head has been placed in the fork of a tree, the leading Santal preparing to cut off its head with a knife. Below, nine severed human heads. At the bottom three Santals brewing rice-beer - one of them tasting some of it from a cup and st...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

278. Add Or 3464

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Add Or 3464
Title:
The Baha festival - figures. Artist(s): Paneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1920-1930)
Scope & Content:
Two majestic figures with large heads, legs wide apart and with short arms and hands raised above their heads standing on either side of a slightly smaller female figure in dark brown; the large figure on the left with a black face; the figure on the right with a white face. Above them an arch....
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

279. Add Or 3465

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Add Or 3465
Title:
The Baha festival - monkey. Artist(s): Paneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1920-1930)
Scope & Content:
A monkey-like figure, white with black markings, engaged in urgent converse with a brown stork-like bird with black wings. Below, two Santals addressing a brown figure with two heads and four arms, holding a quoit, arrow and conch-shell and mounted on a brown bird. Reproduced: M. Archer (1967)...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

280. Add Or 3466

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3466
Title:
The Baha festival - procession to grove. Artist(s): Paneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1920-1930)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Above, four Santals in a line proceeding to the sacred grove; below, four further Santals, headed by the priest with a pot, winnowing fan and axe, the third Santal with a basket on his head, the last in the line blowing a buffalo horn.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

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