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182. 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
183. 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
184. Add Or 3825
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 3825
- Title:
- Three Santal women with sprigs of sal blossom dancing at the Baha festival.
- Scope & Content:
- Three Santal women with sprigs of sal blossom dancing at the Baha festival accompaned by a drummer with a ‘tumdak’;’ below a red horse and blue elephant, the symbolic vehicles of the Kisku and Murmu Santal clans.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- c 1920
- Extent:
- 1 Item
185. Add Or 3826
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 3826
- Title:
- Scroll painting illustrating the Baha festival - white monkey
- Scope & Content:
- A white monkey with yellow scarf addresses a large goose-like bird with yellow head, neck and feet and white and black plumage. Below a male figure with yellow skin and red scarf attended by a figure holding an umbrella approaches a four-headed four-armed figure riding on a gander. Note: Rega...
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- c 1930
- Extent:
- 1 Item
186. Add Or 3835
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 3835
- Title:
- A bride and bridegroom being carried in a palanquin.. Artist(s): Bhagavati Devi (fl. 1974)
- Scope & Content:
- A bride and bridegroom being carried in a palanquin.. By Bhagavati Devi, a Maithil Kayasth woman from the household of Sukh Kant Datta, village Jitwarpur, Madhubani district, Bihar, March 1974. 550 by 760 mm.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 1974
- Extent:
- 1 Item
187. Add Or 3968
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 3968
- Title:
- Hookswinging festival
- Scope & Content:
- Hookswinging festival (‘Charak puja’). Inscribed on front: ‘A Native ceremony. The man swinging by the back is performing a vow. A hook is put into the flesh of his back and he swings there for a certain time. He throws out fruit and flowers to the Bystanders. Those who swing are generally ...
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- c 1840
- Extent:
- 1 Item
188. Add Or 4175
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 4175
- Title:
- A Sivalingam under a tree, with a sage and devotee. One of 12 paintings on mica sheets depicting Hindu divinities.
- Scope & Content:
- A ‘Sivalingam’ under a tree, with a sage and devotee.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- c 1850
- Extent:
- 1 Item
189. Add Or 4239
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 4239
- Title:
- Maithil Brahmin aide-memoire for the decoration of the bridal chamber on the occasion of the 'first' marriage. RESTRICTED ACCESS. Artist(s): Siddheshvari Devi (fl. c.1940)
- Scope & Content:
- From the left, above: Four-armed Krishna in a tree with six men around it; seated Brahma and Ganesa; lotus circles with a head (the moon?) above; a wreathed bamboo shoot with two birds above. Below: Siva and Parvati in a pavilion with two fish above; Vishnu lying on Sesha, with Brahma and Laksm...
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- c 1940
- Extent:
- 1 Item
190. Add Or 4240
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 4240
- Title:
- Maithil Brahmin aide-memoire for the decoration of the bridal chamber on the occasion of the 'first' marriage. Artist(s): Siddheshvari Devi (fl. c.1940)
- Scope & Content:
- From the left: Siva and Parvati in a pavilion; four-armed Krishna and two ‘gopis’ (above) and seated Brahma (below); lotus circles surrounded by a turtle, a fish, Ganesa, two heads (sun and moon?), a wreathed bamboo-shoot with two birds above, a chequered board, a fan, and a necklace. A lotus s...
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- c 1940
- Extent:
- 1 Item