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1. Add Or 3470-3472

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Add Or 3470-3472
Title:
Add.Or.3470-3472 A scroll painting cut into three sections depicting the goddess Kali, Death’s minions and Baghut bonga. By Budesvar Citrakar, village ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.3470-3472 A scroll painting cut into three sections depicting the goddess Kali, Death’s minions and Baghut bonga. By Budesvar Citrakar, village Bora, Banskuli circle, Dumka subdivision, Santal Parganas, Bihar, c.1940. Water-colour; width 345 mm. Pale blue patterned border. Collected ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1939-1941
Extent:
3 items

2. Add Or 3471

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3471
Title:
Two demons, blue-skinned and with long hair.. Artist(s): Budeshwar Chitrakar (fl. c.1940)
Scope & Content:
Two demons, blue-skinned and with long hair down their backs; the first brandishing a knife, the second holding a human leg and chewing a human arm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

3. Add Or 3470

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3470
Title:
The goddess Kali, four armed, with dark blue skin.. Artist(s): Budeshwar Chitrakar (fl. c.1940)
Scope & Content:
The goddess Kali, four-armed, with dark blue skin and yellow garland of human heads, in one of her hands a severed head. She stands on a prone male victim, a small snake above its head.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

4. Add Or 3472

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3472
Title:
A large yellow tiger, black-spotted except for stripes on the neck; below, a coiled up snake, a bear and a peacock.. Artist(s): Budeshwar Chitrakar (fl. c.1940)
Scope & Content:
A large yellow ‘tiger’, black-spotted except for black stripes on the neck; below, a coiled up snake, a bear and a peacock. Reproduced: M. Archer (1967), p.81. Note: The ‘tiger’ is here regarded as Baghut bonga (see Introduction to printed catalogue). For the Shahabad cult of Baghaut (a man w...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

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