Muharram festival figure; Buraq with a ta'ziyah on its back.
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Muharram festival figure; Buraq with a ‘ta’ziyah’ on its back. Note: Buraq was the winged human-headed horse that carried Muhammad to Paradise. The ‘ta’ziyahs’ which are carried in the Muharram procession are bamboo and paper constructions representing the tombs of Hasan and Husain, the grands...
Procession of Vaisnava devotees including Chaitanya, Advaita, Nityananda and Keshav Bharati. Bottala, Calcutta. Artist(s): Hira Lal Karmakar (fl.1860-1870)
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Procession of Vaisnava devotees including Caitanya, Advaita, Nityananda and Kesav Bharati. Engraved in Bengali characters: ‘sri advaite prabhu. sri nityananda prabhu. sri maha prabhu. sri kesab bharati’ (names of four major Vaisnavas). ‘sri hiralal karmakarer krita’ (done by Hira Lal Karmak...
Woman bathing. A lady of rank is seated on steps leading to a river; her hair is being dried by an old lady.
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Woman bathing. A lady of rank is seated on steps leading down to a river; her hair is being dried by an old lady, and two other maid-servants stand behind. Another lady is coming out of the water. In the distance elephants and guards are waiting. Water-colour; 12.75 by 8.25 ins.
The Holi festival. A man, garlanded and crowned with shoes, is being carried on a reversed charpoy by a dancing and singing crowd, accompanied by drums. A broom, in place of a peacock-feather fan, is waved behind him. Some of the crowd wield swords, a man in the foreground gathers dust to thr...