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1. 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

2. 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

3. Add Or 3489

Reference (shelfmark):
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

4. Add Or 3490

Reference (shelfmark):
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

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