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231. Add Or 3442

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Add Or 3442
Title:
A large brown tigress with black spot suckling a cub and biting off a man's head, mounted by a Muslim figure.. Artist(s): Aminda Chitrakar (fl. 1920-45)
Scope & Content:
A large brown ‘tigress’ with black spots, suckling a cub and biting off a man’s head, mounted by a Muslim figure, with black beard and white cap, holding a rosary and stick. Around them the alcove of a shrine (?). Below, a dark brown stag with black spots, gazing over its shoulder at a black d...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1945
Extent:
1 Item

232. Add Or 3443

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Add Or 3443
Title:
The pir's shrine.. Artist(s): Aminda Chitrakar (fl. 1920-45)
Scope & Content:
The ‘pir’s’ shrine with four red flags on bamboo poles on the corners, a knife ill front, two small horses to the right, and a midget Muslim worshipper kneeling before it. On either side, a tall Muslim figure with black beard, holding a curved pole tipped with a red flag. Below, two Muslims wi...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

233. Add Or 3444

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Add Or 3444
Title:
The Baha festival - three figures. Artist(s): Jitu Chitrakar (fl.1920s)
Scope & Content:
Two skirted figures in brown and reddish orange, with short knob-tipped stumps as arms, standing on either side of a female figure, thinner but only slightly less tall. The left figure with black head, the right figure with brown head. Below, lotus flowers and stalks (?). Note: For Puri paint...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

234. Add Or 3445

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Add Or 3445
Title:
The Baha festival - white monkey. Artist(s): Jitu Chitrakar (fl.1920s)
Scope & Content:
Above, a white monkey with black spots talking to a group of four Santals, two of them holding umbrellas; in their midst, a brown bird with long beak. Below three Santal men encountering a three-headed figure with orange red ‘crown’ mounted on a large brown bird; below two small Santal women. ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

235. Add Or 3446

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Add Or 3446
Title:
The Baha festival - procession to the grove. Artist(s): Jitu Chitrakar (fl.1920s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. A line of Santals, headed by the ‘naeke’ (priest), going to the ‘jaher’ (sacred grove); below, a Santal boy climbing a sal tree to throw down blossom, four other Santals standing by, the priest sacrificing a chicken by cutting its throat on the upturned edge of a battle-axe. ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

236. Add Or 3447

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Add Or 3447
Title:
The Baha festival - dancing. Artist(s): Jitu Chitrakar (fl.1920s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha Festival. Five Santal women dancing the Baha dance with sprays of sal-tree blossom in their hair, accompanied by two Santal drummers, the left one with a ‘tumdak’,’ the other with a ‘tamak.’ Below the Baha dance continuing, a woman with a spray of sal-tree blossom in her hair, four me...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

237. Add Or 3448

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Add Or 3448
Title:
The Baha festival - sacrifice of bullock and python. Artist(s): Jitu Chitrakar (fl.1920s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Killing a bullock and python. Above, a bullock is led to a tree, a Santal holding its tall and another Santal preparing to fell it with the butt-end of an axe. To the left, a Santal with a knife; up in the tree, another Santal. Below, three Santals, two of them with knives...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

238. Add Or 3449

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3449
Title:
The Baha festival - rice beer party. Artist(s): Jitu Chitrakar (fl.1920s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Three Santal women and six Santal men carousing on ricebeer. One of the men drunk, another helping to pick him up.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

239. Add Or 3450

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Add Or 3450
Title:
A small brown tiger with blackish skin, accompanied by a Muslim figure.. Artist(s): Jitu Chitrakar (fl.1920s)
Scope & Content:
A small ‘tiger’ with blackish grey skin, black stripes and enormous head, with brilliant red tongue and eye and black spots, accompanied by a ‘Muslim’ figure, with black beard and blackish grey skin, walking beside it and holding an iron chain. Below, a ‘pir’s’ shrine, with a bearded figure on ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

240. Add Or 3451

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Add Or 3451
Title:
Figures drumming and dancing. Artist(s): Jitu Chitrakar (fl.1920s)
Scope & Content:
Figures drumming and dancing. Above, two tall figures, one of them with a chain; between them a smaller figure leaping around with small sticks. Below, a line of three men, the first with a gong, the second with a ‘tamak,’ the third with ‘a tumdak’.’ All have blackish grey skins.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item