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Subject Rites and Ceremonies Level [40] File

161. Add Or 3463

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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

162. Add Or 3464

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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

163. Add Or 3465

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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

164. Add Or 3466

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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

165. Add Or 3467

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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

166. Add Or 3468

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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

167. 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

168. 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

169. 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

170. 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

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