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321. Add Or 3533

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3533
Title:
The first Santal parents, and their seven sons.. Artist(s): Madhu Chitrakar (fl.1930s)
Scope & Content:
The first Santal parents. A woman lying down; below, a man and woman standing. Beneath them, in two rows, seven male figures four with axes, three with bows and arrows. NOTE:Identified by Laku Citrakar as Pilcu Haram and Pilcu Budhi,the first parents,and the subsidiary figures as their seven ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

322. Add Or 3534

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3534
Title:
Pilcu Budhi and her seven daughters. Artist(s): Madhu Chitrakar (fl.1930s)
Scope & Content:
Eight women standing below a banyan tree. Note: Identified by Laku Citrakar as Pilcu Budhi and her seven daughters. In the alternative, as Pilcu Budhi’s eight daughters. Compare the Sohrae legend (W.G. Archer (1974), 198-99) where Sohrae is the eldest of the eight daughters and remains unmarr...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

323. Add Or 3535

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3535
Title:
Seven male figures, the sons of Pilcu Budhi and Pilcu Haram, making rice beer; and their parents. Artist(s): Madhu Chitrakar (fl.1930s)
Scope & Content:
Seven male figures, the sons of Pilcu Haram and Pilcu Budhi, making rice beer and getting drunk. Below, Pilcu Haram and Pilcu Budhi setting out alone for the forest. At the bottom, sleeping together in a hut.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

324. Add Or 3536

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3536
Title:
Santal creation myth.. Artist(s): Madhu Chitrakar (fl.1930s)
Scope & Content:
A three-headed four-armed figure standing beside a goose-like bird, approached by a royal figure with long scarf attended by a servant who holds a fan above him. Below, two birds and a crab-like creature. At the bottom to the right four Santal girls, to the left, three Santal boys. Reproduced...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

325. Add Or 3537

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3537
Title:
The Baha festival. - chicken sacrifice. Artist(s): Madhu Chitrakar (fl.1930s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. The priest assisted by two other Santals proceeding to the sacred grove. Below, presenting a chicken with some rice before sacrificing it. To the lower left, a Santal blowing a buffalo horn. Reproduced: M. Archer (1970), pl.58.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

326. Add Or 3538

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3538
Title:
The Baha festival - dancing. Artist(s): Madhu Chitrakar (fl.1930s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Four Santal women with sprigs of sal-tree blossom in their hair dancing, accompanied by one boy with a ‘tumdak’’ and by another with a stick and ‘tamak.’ Reproduced: M. Archer (1970), pl.59.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

327. Add Or 3539

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3539
Title:
The Baha festival - bullock (cow?) sacrifice. Artist(s): Madhu Chitrakar (fl.1930s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. A Santal holding the tail of a cow while a second Santal prepares to fell it with the butt-end of an axe. Reproduced: M. Archer (1970), pl.60.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

328. Add Or 3540

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3540
Title:
The Baha festival - python and beer. Artist(s): Madhu Chitrakar (fl.1930s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Three Santals each with a knife holding a python, prior to killing it. Below, a further three making rice-beer, one Santal lying drunk on the ground. Reproduced: M. Archer (1970), pl.61.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

329. Add Or 3541

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3541
Title:
Sengel bonga approached by Indra Dama Raja to kill his 18 sons; 18 severed heads. Artist(s): Sitanath Chitrakar (fl. c.1935)
Scope & Content:
Torn at the top. Below, a massive figure its right foot resting on its left knee, four-headed (three heads detached, one head on the body), approached by a suppliant. On the left side and at the bottom, a row of eighteen severed heads. Note: Sengel bonga approached by Indra Daman Raja (leader...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1935
Extent:
1 Item

330. Add Or 3542

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3542
Title:
Baha festival - sacrificing fowls. Artist(s): Sitanath Chitrakar (fl. c.1935)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. The priest and his assistant sacrificing fowls at a tree in the sacred grove.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1935
Extent:
1 Item