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201. Add Or 3410

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3410
Title:
The Baha festival
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Brewing rice-beer. A seated Santal with four leaf-cups, a second Santal stirring the contents of a large pot with a stick. Below, a Santal falling down drunk, a second Santal succouring him.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

202. Add Or 3411

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3411
Title:
A large pale brown tiger with black spots and stripes mounted by a bearded Muslim figure holding a club.
Scope & Content:
A large pale brown tiger with black spots and stripes, red tongue, long claws and whiskers mounted by a bearded Muslim figure holding a small club. Above an orange alcove with three conical structures enclosed by a cusped black arch. Note: The structures may represent the ‘pir’s’ shrine.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

203. Add Or 3412

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3412
Title:
Death, black-skinned and with black and white dress.
Scope & Content:
Death, black-skinned and with black and white dress, sits holding a club like a leg bone and smoking a hookah, an evil deer standing before him. Below, a demon holds a woman up by the hair and suspends her in the pink jaws of a fire. Reproduced: M. Archer (1970), pl.66.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

204. Add Or 3413

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3413
Title:
Demons tormenting evil-doers
Scope & Content:
A black demon pulling out the tongue of a man ‘who told lies’; below, another demon mounting guard on a man who has straw on his head.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

205. Add Or 3414

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3414
Title:
Demons tormenting evil-doers
Scope & Content:
A black demon with pink shirt threatening a man whose wrists have been tied together so that he cannot brush aside a swarm of insects round his mouth; below, another demon sitting and lecturing a man condemned to carry on his head a large weight ‘because he would not feed his parents’.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

206. Add Or 3415

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3415
Title:
Demons tormenting evil-doers
Scope & Content:
A black demon threatening with an axe and kicking a man condemned to sit on a chair of nails ‘because he said bad things’. Below, a Santal woman with a pot tied round her neck being kicked on the shoulder by a demon ‘because she stole rice from a pot’.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

207. Add Or 3416

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3416
Title:
A man and wife who lived good lives sitting peaceably, together with demons tormenting evil-doers
Scope & Content:
A man and wife who lived good lives sitting peaceably; to the right, a man who ill-treated his maternal uncle’standing with both arms cut off at the elbows. Below, a black demon threatens with a small club a woman condemned to carry a rice-pounder hung round her neck ‘because she stole rice’ an...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

208. Add Or 3417

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3417
Title:
An evil doer with his wrists tied. Below, a demon pulling out hair
Scope & Content:
An evil-doer with wrists tied, a second evil-doer being strangled by a demon. Below, to the left, a demon pulling out hair, to the right, a second demon stringing up an evil-doer and suspending him head downwards. Note: Crimes or offences in the above unspecified. Remaining glosses supplied b...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

209. Add Or 3419

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3419
Title:
Scroll painting illustrating the Baha festival. - two majestic figures with a small female
Scope & Content:
Two majestic figures standing on either side of a short female figure; the left figure with blue face and chest, the right figure with white face and chest; both figures with upraised stump-like arms ending in knobs. Yellow aurioles. Note: Modelled on the Puri Jagannatha trio but signifying to...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

210. Add Or 3420

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3420
Title:
Scroll painting of the Baha festival. - villagers on their way to the sacred grove
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Four villagers, including the ‘naeke’ (priest) and ‘kudam naeke’ (field priest), carrying a dagger, winnowing fan, pot and a basket, on their way to the sacred grove. Below, the priest kneeling under a tree beside an up-fumed battle-axe and holding a chicken about to be sacr...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item