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032-002321838 Language Not applicable Subject Stringed Instruments

1. Mss Eur F191/332(561)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F191/332(561)
Title:
From Shantiniketan: Religious beggar with ektar. Photographer: Bake, Arnold Adriaan
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of the religious beggar with ektar [stringed instrument].
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Mar 1929
Extent:
1 item

2. Mss Eur F191/332(577)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F191/332(577)
Title:
Mahesvari, a South-Indian girl, playing the vina. Photographer: Bake, Arnold Adriaan
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of a south Indian girl, Mahesvari, playing the vina.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Aug 1929
Extent:
1 item

3. Mss Eur F191/332(620)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F191/332(620)
Title:
From Shantiniketan; Trip to Dumka Hills: Two boys playing the banam. Photographer: Bake, Arnold Adriaan
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of a boy playing the banam.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Apr 1931
Extent:
1 item

4. Mss Eur F191/332(1310)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F191/332(1310)
Title:
From Erode: Ernakulam. Pullovens, snake worshippers and exorcists, with their instruments: a violin with one string and a kind of rumbling-pot. (Bake explains the working of this instrument). Photographer: Bake, Arnold Adriaan
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of Pullovens, snake worshippers and exorcists, with their instruments: a violin with one string and a kind of rumbling-pot. (Bake explains the working of this instrument).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jun 1938
Extent:
1 item

5. Mss Eur F191/332(1248)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F191/332(1248)
Title:
From Erode: A rather rare instrument, Gotuvadyam. It looks like a Vina, but it has no frets (most string instruments in India have frets). The right hand has plectra on the first, middle and third finger. The strings are pressed down by a cyllinder held in the left hand, which moves along the strings as if playing a Hawaiian guitar but without that instrument's mewing sound. The legend says that two devine musicians, I think Narada and Tamburu, had a quarrel: who was the best vina player? Th...
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography View of a rather rare instrument, Gotuvadyam. It looks like a Vina, but it has no frets (most string instruments in India have frets). The right hand has plectra on the first, middle and third finger. The strings are pressed down by a cyllinder held in the left hand,...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jun 1938
Extent:
1 item

6. Mss Eur F191/332(1249)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F191/332(1249)
Title:
From Erode: A rather rare instrument, Gotuvadyam. It looks like a Vina, but it has no frets (most string instruments in India have frets). The right hand has plectra on the first, middle and third finger. The strings are pressed down by a cyllinder held in the left hand, which moves along the strings as if playing a Hawaiian guitar but without that instrument's mewing sound. The legend says that two devine musicians, I think Narada and Tamburu, had a quarrel: who was the best vina player? Th...
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of musician at Gotuvadyam. It looks like a Vina, but it has no frets (most string instruments in India have frets). The right hand has plectra on the first, middle and third finger. The strings are pressed down by a cyllinder held in the left hand, which mov...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jun 1938
Extent:
1 item

7. Mss Eur F191/332(1311)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F191/332(1311)
Title:
From Erode: Ernakulam. Gives an idea of the Pullovens' small stature. Photographer: Bake, Arnold Adriaan
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of Mrs. Bake with pullovens and the snake worshippers.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jun 1938
Extent:
1 item

8. Mss Eur F191/332(1348)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F191/332(1348)
Title:
From Erode: Calicut. These two should come after Malappuram. Another group of Pullovens with the same instruments as in Ernakulam. The old man to the right was their escort with an umbrella of split palmleaves. Probably the dancing-hats of the Pariyahs in Trichur were also made of this material. Photographer: Bake, Arnold Adriaan
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography View of the another group of Pullovens with the same instruments as in Ernakulam. The old man to the right was their escort with an umbrella of split palmleaves. Probably the dancing-hats of the Pariyahs in Trichur were also made of this material.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jun 1938
Extent:
1 item

9. Mss Eur F191/332(540)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F191/332(540)
Title:
From Shantiniketan: Roaming singers of religious songs (not baol siongs) with violin, drum and cymbals. On 7 in the background Rathi's new house. Photographer: Bake, Arnold Adriaan
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography View of the roaming singers of religious songs (not baol siongs) with violin, drum and cymbals. On 7 in the background Rathi's new house.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jan 1929
Extent:
1 item

10. Mss Eur F191/332(670)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F191/332(670)
Title:
From Nepal: The first singer of folk ballads who came to them (Krishna Bahadur) with his instrument. Photographer: Bake, Arnold Adriaan
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of the first singer of folk ballads who came to them (Krishna Bahadur) with his instrument.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Aug 1931
Extent:
1 item

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