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251. Add Or 3462

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3462
Title:
The Baha festival. Artist(s): Manjoy Chitrakar (fl.1930s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. A line of nine Santal boys and men, their right arms upraised, acclaiming the priest at the end of the Baha festival. Below, a bull with its neck in the cleft trunk of a tree, its tail held by a Santal boy. To the left, a Santal raising a battle-axe with which to fell it.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

252. Add Or 3463

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3463
Title:
The Baha festival. Artist(s): Manjoy Chitrakar (fl.1930s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Two Santals supporting a python whose head has been placed in the fork of a tree, the leading Santal preparing to cut off its head with a knife. Below, nine severed human heads. At the bottom three Santals brewing rice-beer - one of them tasting some of it from a cup and st...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

253. Add Or 3464

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3464
Title:
The Baha festival - figures. Artist(s): Paneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1920-1930)
Scope & Content:
Two majestic figures with large heads, legs wide apart and with short arms and hands raised above their heads standing on either side of a slightly smaller female figure in dark brown; the large figure on the left with a black face; the figure on the right with a white face. Above them an arch....
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

254. Add Or 3465

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3465
Title:
The Baha festival - monkey. Artist(s): Paneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1920-1930)
Scope & Content:
A monkey-like figure, white with black markings, engaged in urgent converse with a brown stork-like bird with black wings. Below, two Santals addressing a brown figure with two heads and four arms, holding a quoit, arrow and conch-shell and mounted on a brown bird. Reproduced: M. Archer (1967)...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

255. Add Or 3466

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3466
Title:
The Baha festival - procession to grove. Artist(s): Paneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1920-1930)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Above, four Santals in a line proceeding to the sacred grove; below, four further Santals, headed by the priest with a pot, winnowing fan and axe, the third Santal with a basket on his head, the last in the line blowing a buffalo horn.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

256. Add Or 3467

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3467
Title:
The Baha festival - sacrifice. Artist(s): Paneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1920-1930)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Above, a tree on which two cloths have been hung. To the right, the priest kneeling, holding a fowl with an axe beside him, behind him a Santal blowing a buffalo horn to the left, two further Santals standing, one of them (the ‘kudam naeke’ or field priest) holding a chicken...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

257. Add Or 3468

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3468
Title:
The Baha festival. - return. Artist(s): Paneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1920-1930)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. The priest with two followers returning to the village where he is welcomed by a Santal woman with a pot. The priest carries a sprig of sal-tree blossom, a winnowing fan and an axe his immediate follower blows a buffalo horn, the third holds a pot. Below, four Santals drink...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

258. Add Or 3469

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3469
Title:
The Baha festival - bullock and python. Artist(s): Paneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1920-1930)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. A bullock on the further side of a tree, its tail held by a Santal boy who shows his teeth. To the left, a Santal about to fell it with the butt-end of an axe. Below, two Santals bringing a python to a third Santal, who stirs a pot. At the bottom, a drunk Santal supported.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

259. Add Or 3470

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3470
Title:
The goddess Kali, four armed, with dark blue skin.. Artist(s): Budeshwar Chitrakar (fl. c.1940)
Scope & Content:
The goddess Kali, four-armed, with dark blue skin and yellow garland of human heads, in one of her hands a severed head. She stands on a prone male victim, a small snake above its head.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

260. Add Or 3471

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3471
Title:
Two demons, blue-skinned and with long hair.. Artist(s): Budeshwar Chitrakar (fl. c.1940)
Scope & Content:
Two demons, blue-skinned and with long hair down their backs; the first brandishing a knife, the second holding a human leg and chewing a human arm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item