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Subject Rites and Ceremonies Level [40] File

171. Add Or 3489

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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

172. Add Or 3490

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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

173. Add Or 3494

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Add Or 3494
Title:
The Baha festival - procession. Artist(s): Malindra Chitrakar (fl.1940s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. The priest with three Santal villagers, carrying an axe, winnowing fan, buffalo horn and baskets, proceeding to the sacred grove. Below a tree, beside which the priest offers a chicken for sacrifice, his assistant standing behind him, to the left, a Santal is ‘possessed’ by ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

174. Add Or 3495

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Add Or 3495
Title:
The Baha festival - return. Artist(s): Malindra Chitrakar (fl.1940s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. A Santal woman washing the feet of the priest after his return from the grove; the priest has his foot on a wooden stool and holds a sprig of sal-tree blossom and a winnowing fan. Behind him a Santal villager with a pot on his shoulder. To the left a third villager. Below,...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

175. Add Or 3496

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Add Or 3496
Title:
The Baha festival - bullock and python. Artist(s): Malindra Chitrakar (fl.1940s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. A white bullock with blue spots, its tall held by a Santal. To the left, a Santal about to fell it with the butt-end of an axe. Below, a python with its head in the cleft of a tree, three Santals guiding it, the leader about to behead it with a knife. At the bottom, a squa...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

176. Add Or 3497

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Add Or 3497
Title:
The Baha festival - scene from Death's kingdom. Artist(s): Malindra Chitrakar (fl.1940s)
Scope & Content:
A scene from Death’s kingdom. A blue demon holding a sinner with a rope round his neck. Behind him, a Santal carrying on his head a red-rimmed bowl. To the left, a Santal moving off. Below, a bounding ‘tiger’, brown with blue whiskers, claws and circular spots and with red tongue. Note: The...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

177. Add Or 3498

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3498
Title:
A tower-like structure with three struts on either side, two worshippers or guardians beside it.. Artist(s): Malindra Chitrakar (fl.1940s)
Scope & Content:
A tower-like structure with three struts on either side, two worshippers or guardians beside it. Below, a drummer and two figures with sword sticks. Note: The structure is perhaps a ‘pir’s’ tomb and the fighters performers at a festival in his honour. It is significant however that none of th...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

178. Add Or 3507

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Add Or 3507
Title:
The Baha festival - figures and monkey. Artist(s): Kirtan Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Two majestic figures swathed in yellow dhotis with stunted arms upraised standing on either side of a short female figure; the left figure with white face and chest, the right figure with blue face and chest. Below, a blue monkey-like figure seated on a foot stool addressing...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

179. Add Or 3537

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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

180. 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

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