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271. Add Or 3482

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3482
Title:
Two majestic figures with large heads.. Artist(s): Praneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
Two majestic figures with large heads and arms upraised, their legs swathed in yellow dhotis, standing on either side of a slightly shorter female figure, her arms also raised. The figure on the left with blue face and chest, the figure on the right with white face and chest. Below, a blue mon...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

272. Add Or 3483

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3483
Title:
A brown-skinned four-headed figure sitting on a stool, with a supplicant, and 18 bleeding heads. Artist(s): Praneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
Above, a brown skinned four-headed figure with two arms seated on a low foot-stool, a princely figure kneeling and supplicating before him. Below, eighteen human heads in two rows, dripping long streams of blood. At the bottom, a drummer with five boys, two clashing cymbals the remaining three...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

273. Add Or 3484

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3484
Title:
Episodes from the Baha festival. Artist(s): Praneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Above, a bullock about to be killed, a boy holding its tall, two Santals standing in front, one of them with an axe. Below, three figures preparing rice-beer. At the bottom, two men and two women standing with two sal-tree branches.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

274. Add Or 3485

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3485
Title:
Two majestic figures with large heads and arms upraised.. Artist(s): Praneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
Two majestic figures with large heads and arnis upraised, their legs swathed in dhotis, standing on either side of a slightly shorter female figure, her arms also raised; the figure on the left with greenish blue face and chest, the figure on the right with white face and chest. Above them, a c...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

275. Add Or 3486

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3486
Title:
A blue and white monkey figure addressing a goose-like bird. Below, a brown skinned, four-headed figure, a princely figure kneeling and supplicating before him.. Artist(s): Praneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
A blue and white monkey-like figure with out-stretched arms addressing a goose-like bird with yellow head and beak and black and blue plumage. Below, a brown-skinned, four-headed figure with two arms, seated on the ground, a princely figure with brown cap and scarf and blue tunic kneeling and s...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

276. Add Or 3487

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3487
Title:
The Baha festival - procession to the grove. Artist(s): Praneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Above, the priest with three assistants carrying winnowing fans, a basket and an axe, proceeding to the sacred grove. Below, the grove itself, indicated by three schematic trees, with the party grouped in the centre. On the right, the priest sacrifices a chicken on the uptu...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

277. Add Or 3488

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3488
Title:
The Baha festival - procession from the grove. Artist(s): Praneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Three of the party returning from the sacred grove, carrying a pot, winnowing fan and basket, a Santal woman washing the feet of the leader (the priest). Below, a Santal man dancing accompanied by three drummers, two with tamaks, one with a ‘tumdak’.’ At the bottom, four Sa...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

278. Add Or 3489

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3489
Title:
The Baha festival - bullock and python killing. Artist(s): Praneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. A white bull, its tail held by a Santal, confronts another Santal who prepares to fell it with the butt-end of an axe. Below, a young python, its head resting on a tree, is supported by two Santals with knives. To the right, two Santals cooking python meat. Below, a Santal...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

279. Add Or 3490

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3490
Title:
The Baha festival - sacrifice and rice -beer making. Artist(s): Praneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. A Santal carrying on a yoke two pots, three other Santals killing a goat by beheading it with an axe. Below, in three lines, twelve Santals, making, serving and drinking rice-beer, the foremost of them a bearded drinker (perhaps the ‘manjhi’ or headman).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

280. Add Or 3491

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3491
Title:
Krishna stealing the milkmaids clothes.. Artist(s): Praneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
Krishna stealing the milkmaids’ clothes. Seven nude girls stand in water, the arms of five of them upraised. Above them Krishna sits on the branch of a tree, playing the flute, the milkmaids’ clothes hanging on the branches.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item