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301. Add Or 3805

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Add Or 3805
Title:
A marriage fan decorated with tassels; on one side a horse, on the other a peacock.
Scope & Content:
A marriage fan decorated with tassels; on one side a horse, on the other a peacock. By a Mali painter, Purnea district, August 1938. Bamboo covered with pith, water-colour; 258 by 285 mm. Collected by W.G. Archer, 1938. Purchased 1974.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1938
Extent:
1 Item

302. Add Or 3825

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Add Or 3825
Title:
Three Santal women with sprigs of sal blossom dancing at the Baha festival.
Scope & Content:
Three Santal women with sprigs of sal blossom dancing at the Baha festival accompaned by a drummer with a ‘tumdak’;’ below a red horse and blue elephant, the symbolic vehicles of the Kisku and Murmu Santal clans.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

303. Add Or 3826

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3826
Title:
Scroll painting illustrating the Baha festival - white monkey
Scope & Content:
A white monkey with yellow scarf addresses a large goose-like bird with yellow head, neck and feet and white and black plumage. Below a male figure with yellow skin and red scarf attended by a figure holding an umbrella approaches a four-headed four-armed figure riding on a gander. Note: Rega...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

304. Add Or 3835

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3835
Title:
A bride and bridegroom being carried in a palanquin.. Artist(s): Bhagavati Devi (fl. 1974)
Scope & Content:
A bride and bridegroom being carried in a palanquin.. By Bhagavati Devi, a Maithil Kayasth woman from the household of Sukh Kant Datta, village Jitwarpur, Madhubani district, Bihar, March 1974. 550 by 760 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1974
Extent:
1 Item

305. Add Or 3856

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3856
Title:
A Sati scene, with numerous spectators in a ring round the pyre
Scope & Content:
A Sati scene, with numerous spectators in a ring round the pyre. By a Murshidabad artist, c.1800. Drawing on mica in brown gouache with touches of colour, 166 by 204 mm. Presented by Mildred and W.G. Archer, 1977. Published Mildred and W.G. Archer 1955, fig.6. Note: This mica painting was o...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 Item

306. Add Or 3948

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3948
Title:
Hook-swinging festival (Charak Puja), with a large crowd watching including elephants, carriages and two sepoys
Scope & Content:
Hook-swinging festival (Charak Puja), with a large crowd watching including elephants, carriages and two sepoys. By a Patna artist, c.1830-40. Inscribed on back by M. Archer ‘Hookswinging festival Murshidabad. From A.S. Nahar.’ Water-colour; 159 by 233 mm. From the collection of Mildred a...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1830
Extent:
1 Item

307. Add Or 3968

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3968
Title:
Hookswinging festival
Scope & Content:
Hookswinging festival (‘Charak puja’). Inscribed on front: ‘A Native ceremony. The man swinging by the back is performing a vow. A hook is put into the flesh of his back and he swings there for a certain time. He throws out fruit and flowers to the Bystanders. Those who swing are generally ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1840
Extent:
1 Item

308. Add Or 3999

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3999
Title:
Vaisnava priests conducting worship inside the Baijnath temple, Deogarh. Artist(s): Shiva Lal (c.1820-80)
Scope & Content:
Vaishnava priests conducting worship inside the Baijnath temple, Deogarh, Santal Parganas, Bhihar. By Siva Lal (c.1820-80) a Patna artist c.1870. Inscribed on front in nagari characters: ‘baijnathji.’ Water-colour; 216 by 190 mm. From the collection of Mildred and W.G. Archer. Purchased 197...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 Item

309. Add Or 4150

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4150
Title:
Marriage procession of a Muslim
Scope & Content:
Marriage procession of a Muslim, the bridegroom on horseback and veiled in pearls, preceded by crowds of musicians, drummers, singers and dancing-girls, with a firework display and on each side bearers with litters of torches, flowers and standards. By a Tanjore(?) trained artist at Madras, c.1...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1825-1830
Extent:
1 Item

310. Add Or 4175

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4175
Title:
A Sivalingam under a tree, with a sage and devotee. One of 12 paintings on mica sheets depicting Hindu divinities.
Scope & Content:
A ‘Sivalingam’ under a tree, with a sage and devotee.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

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