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241. Add Or 3390

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Add Or 3390
Title:
They discover the root.
Scope & Content:
They discover the root; Pilcu Haram shown digging it up, Pilcu Budhi, falling down as if drunk, thereby indicating the effects of the rice-beer and why the ferment is required. Around them the forest, shown as three trees. Below, Pilcu Haram seated beneath a tree, brewing rice-beer in a large ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

242. Add Or 3391

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Add Or 3391
Title:
Pilcu Haram kneeling and straining rice-beer from the pot.
Scope & Content:
Pilcu Haram kneeling and straining rice-beer from the pot, his wife standing behind him. Below, their seven daughters (left) and seven sons (right) lying drunk on the ground in two rows, Maran Buru standing between them in the middle. Seven arches (signifying rooms), with a couple (one son and...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

243. Add Or 3392

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Add Or 3392
Title:
Seven arches, with a couple standing in each.
Scope & Content:
Inscribed in Bengali characters: ‘ei pater mulya 2/11’ (The price of this picture is Rupees 2 Annas 2). Note: An allusion to the pairing off of Pilcu Harani and Pilcu Buddhi’s children, their intermarriage and the resulting formation of the first seven Santal clans.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

244. Add Or 3393

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Add Or 3393
Title:
Above, five bongas in a row. Below, the seven sons in a line standing beside seven dishes.
Scope & Content:
Above, five bongas in a row. Below, the seven sons in a line standing beside seven dishes. Note: According to the artist the eldest son chose the largest dish which contained meat.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

245. Add Or 3394

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Add Or 3394
Title:
Death, seated with his book of punishment and stout stick.
Scope & Content:
Death, seated with his book of punishments and stout stick, sentences a Santal evil -doer who is brought before him by one of his demon minions. Below, the offender lies prone while the demon stabs him with a spear. Note: The artist explained that Death is punishing the eldest son for choosing...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

246. Add Or 3395

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Add Or 3395
Title:
Two majestic figures with angular heads and skirts standing on either side of a slim figure who is mounted on a stool.
Scope & Content:
Two majestic figures with angular heads and skirts standing on either side of a slim female figure who is mounted on a stool. The figure to the left has a green face; the figure to the right a white one. Below them, a monkey seated on a string bed in front of a leafy tree behind which a small ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

247. Add Or 3395-3398

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Add Or 3395-3398
Title:
Add.Or.3395-3398 Scroll painting cut into four sections illustrating the Baha festival and Death’s kingdom. By a jadupatua of village Sonajori, Pakaur ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.3395-3398 Scroll painting cut into four sections illustrating the Baha festival and Death’s kingdom. By a jadupatua of village Sonajori, Pakaur subdivision, Santal Parganas district, Bihar, c.1930. Water-colour; width 275 mm. Collected by W.G. Archer, 1944. Purchased 1974. Note: For...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1929-1931
Extent:
4 items

248. Add Or 3396

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Add Or 3396
Title:
The Baha festival.
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. (1) At the top, seven Santal villagers carrying a cloth, a pot, a winnowing fan and a basket with five fowls going in procession to the sacred grove, two of their number blowing on buffalo horns. (2) At the grove (indicated by four schematised trees), the ‘naeke’ or village ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

249. Add Or 3397

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Add Or 3397
Title:
The Baha festival.
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. (1) The procession of six villagers returning from the grove, the priest leading them, the basket now containing only three fowls, a Santal woman washing the priest’s feet. (2) A Santal seated before a large post, resting on three round stones and ladling from it rice-beer; ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

250. Add Or 3398

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Add Or 3398
Title:
Scenes from Death's kingdom.
Scope & Content:
Scenes in Death’s kingdom. (1) Death, holding in one hand his book of punishments and in the other his club, sentences an evil-doer who is suspended by the hair before him by a huge demon. (2) A row of five Santals undergoing different punishments; a man ‘who drove away his parents’ has a larg...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item