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291. Add Or 3496

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Title:
The Baha festival - bullock and python. Artist(s): Malindra Chitrakar (fl.1940s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. A white bullock with blue spots, its tall held by a Santal. To the left, a Santal about to fell it with the butt-end of an axe. Below, a python with its head in the cleft of a tree, three Santals guiding it, the leader about to behead it with a knife. At the bottom, a squa...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

292. Add Or 3497

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Add Or 3497
Title:
The Baha festival - scene from Death's kingdom. Artist(s): Malindra Chitrakar (fl.1940s)
Scope & Content:
A scene from Death’s kingdom. A blue demon holding a sinner with a rope round his neck. Behind him, a Santal carrying on his head a red-rimmed bowl. To the left, a Santal moving off. Below, a bounding ‘tiger’, brown with blue whiskers, claws and circular spots and with red tongue. Note: The...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

293. Add Or 3498

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Add Or 3498
Title:
A tower-like structure with three struts on either side, two worshippers or guardians beside it.. Artist(s): Malindra Chitrakar (fl.1940s)
Scope & Content:
A tower-like structure with three struts on either side, two worshippers or guardians beside it. Below, a drummer and two figures with sword sticks. Note: The structure is perhaps a ‘pir’s’ tomb and the fighters performers at a festival in his honour. It is significant however that none of th...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

294. Add Or 3507

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Title:
The Baha festival - figures and monkey. Artist(s): Kirtan Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Two majestic figures swathed in yellow dhotis with stunted arms upraised standing on either side of a short female figure; the left figure with white face and chest, the right figure with blue face and chest. Below, a blue monkey-like figure seated on a foot stool addressing...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

295. Add Or 3537

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Title:
The Baha festival. - chicken sacrifice. Artist(s): Madhu Chitrakar (fl.1930s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. The priest assisted by two other Santals proceeding to the sacred grove. Below, presenting a chicken with some rice before sacrificing it. To the lower left, a Santal blowing a buffalo horn. Reproduced: M. Archer (1970), pl.58.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

296. Add Or 3538

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Title:
The Baha festival - dancing. Artist(s): Madhu Chitrakar (fl.1930s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Four Santal women with sprigs of sal-tree blossom in their hair dancing, accompanied by one boy with a ‘tumdak’’ and by another with a stick and ‘tamak.’ Reproduced: M. Archer (1970), pl.59.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

297. Add Or 3539

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Add Or 3539
Title:
The Baha festival - bullock (cow?) sacrifice. Artist(s): Madhu Chitrakar (fl.1930s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. A Santal holding the tail of a cow while a second Santal prepares to fell it with the butt-end of an axe. Reproduced: M. Archer (1970), pl.60.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

298. Add Or 3540

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Title:
The Baha festival - python and beer. Artist(s): Madhu Chitrakar (fl.1930s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Three Santals each with a knife holding a python, prior to killing it. Below, a further three making rice-beer, one Santal lying drunk on the ground. Reproduced: M. Archer (1970), pl.61.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

299. Add Or 3542

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Title:
Baha festival - sacrificing fowls. Artist(s): Sitanath Chitrakar (fl. c.1935)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. The priest and his assistant sacrificing fowls at a tree in the sacred grove.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1935
Extent:
1 Item

300. Add Or 3804

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Add Or 3804
Title:
A marriage fan: on one side a bride surrounded by lotuses standing in a niche; on the other Durga surrounded by a leafy stems and seated cross-legged in a niche.
Scope & Content:
A marriage fan: on one side a bride surrounded by lotuses standing in a niche; on the other Durga surrounded by leafy stems and seated cross-legged in a niche. By a Maithil Kayasth woman, Darbhanga district, 1940. Bamboo covered with paper, water-colour; 260 by 265 mm. Presented to W.G. Arche...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1940
Extent:
1 Item

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