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171. Add Or 3380

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3380
Title:
Scenes at a fair ground. Artist(s): Babulal and Surendra Chitrakar (fl. 1930)
Scope & Content:
Scenes at a fair ground. At the top on either side, two large figures wearing red jackets, dancing breeches and peacock feathers; the figure to the left holding a long cylindrical drum ‘(tumdak’),’ the figure to the right holding a stout stick. Between them, two small Santal figures executing ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

172. Add Or 3381

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3381
Title:
Scene at a fair ground.. Artist(s): Babulal and Surendra Chitrakar (fl. 1930)
Scope & Content:
Scenes at a fair ground. Five Santal girls and seven boys dancing at a jatra. In the top row, small figures, explained by the artists as ‘shown small but really grown up’, are trying to pull the girls away; in the bottom row a third boy also pulling at a girl. To the left two drummers, one wi...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

173. Add Or 3382

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3382
Title:
Death, a large seated figure with black face, with a smaller demon attending them.
Scope & Content:
Death, a large seated figure with black face, with a smaller figure, a demon, attending him. He holds a book of punishments in his right hand and a club for smiting evil-doers in his left.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

174. Add Or 3383

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3383
Title:
Evil-doers receiving punishment from Death's minions
Scope & Content:
Evil-doers receiving punishment from Death’s minions. Above, a large demon with yellow pants, black skin and huge club suspending by the hair over a fire a woman ‘who would not give fire to her neighbours’, the fire shown as a pair of red jaws. To the left, a man walking away, an iron grill on...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

175. Add Or 3384

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3384
Title:
Three gods on lotuses
Scope & Content:
Three ‘gods’ on lotuses: the centre one with two heads in profile and with four arms, the left standing and facing right, the right seated with face three-quarter view. Note: Interpreted by Jogendra Citrakar of village Jogidih, Dumka subdivision, Santal Parganas, as Visnu, Brahma and Siva but r...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

176. Add Or 3385

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3385
Title:
The great waters before the creation of the earth.
Scope & Content:
The great waters before the creation of the earth, with at the top a worm, prawn and crab, below two ‘raghop’ boar’ fishes and a turtle, and at the bottom a long crocodile and large turtle, the whole besprinkled with black dabs and smudges perhaps signifying earth or mud. Reproduced: M. Archer ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

177. Add Or 3386

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3386
Title:
Clumps of sirom grass (the first plants to be created) with below them Has (the first gander) and Hasil (the first goose).
Scope & Content:
Clumps of sirom grass (the first plants to be created) with below them Has (the first gander) and Hasil (the first goose) with their nests and the two eggs from which the first Santal pair was hatched.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

178. Add Or 3387

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3387
Title:
Maran Buru
Scope & Content:
Maran Buru, a squat figure with large head and black skin, addressing the first Santal pair, Pilcu Haram and Pilcu Budhi, Pilcu Haram shown with shorts, Pilcu Budhi with a skirt; below, a line of seven small figures (their daughters); at the bottom, on the right two further daughters, on the lef...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

179. Add Or 3388

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3388
Title:
Maran Buru.
Scope & Content:
Maran Buru, a black figure on the right, sending Pilcu Haram (shown as leading a line of seven sons) to hunt in the forest; below, Pilcu Budhi leading a line of seven daughters to gather plants and leaves; at the bottom a tree with the seven daughters in its branches and the seven sons standing ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

180. Add Or 3389

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3389
Title:
Life in the forest.
Scope & Content:
Life in the forest. At the top, a row of five deer; below Maran Buru instructing Pilcu Haram and Pilcu Budhi how to make rice-beer; at the bottom, three trees with Pilcu Haram and Pilcu Budhi in quest of the root from which to make the ferment. Reproduced: M. Archer (1970), pl.64.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item