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Subject Rites and Ceremonies Level [40] File

141. Add Or 3421

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Add Or 3421
Title:
Scroll painting of the Baha festival. - returning from the grove
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. The party returning from the grove. The ‘naeke’ (priest) carrying a spray of sal tree blossom in his right hand and a winnowing fan under his right arm followed by two villagers, one with a basket, the other with a pot. A Santal girl, a spray of sal tree blossom in her hair...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

142. Add Or 3422

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3422
Title:
Scroll painting of the Baha festival.- killing the bullock and python
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Killing a bullock and python. Above a bullock is led to a tree, a Santal holding its tail and two other Santals standing before it, with upraised battle-axes. Below, a python, its head in a cleft tree trunk, is about to be slaughtered by three men who stand in a row with ra...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

143. Add Or 3423

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3423
Title:
Scroll painting of the Baha festival.- Santals brewing rice beer
Scope & Content:
Merry-making at the Baha festival. A Santal brewing rice-beer. Below, a Santal striving to support a second Santal who has fallen down drunk. To the right, a third Santal tending a pot.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

144. Add Or 3444

Reference (shelfmark):
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

145. Add Or 3445

Reference (shelfmark):
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

146. Add Or 3446

Reference (shelfmark):
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

147. Add Or 3447

Reference (shelfmark):
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

148. Add Or 3448

Reference (shelfmark):
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

149. 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

150. Add Or 3451

Reference (shelfmark):
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

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