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311. Add Or 3449

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Add Or 3449
Title:
The Baha festival - rice beer party. Artist(s): Jitu Chitrakar (fl.1920s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Three Santal women and six Santal men carousing on ricebeer. One of the men drunk, another helping to pick him up.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

312. Add Or 3450

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3450
Title:
A small brown tiger with blackish skin, accompanied by a Muslim figure.. Artist(s): Jitu Chitrakar (fl.1920s)
Scope & Content:
A small ‘tiger’ with blackish grey skin, black stripes and enormous head, with brilliant red tongue and eye and black spots, accompanied by a ‘Muslim’ figure, with black beard and blackish grey skin, walking beside it and holding an iron chain. Below, a ‘pir’s’ shrine, with a bearded figure on ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

313. Add Or 3450-3452

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3450-3452
Title:
Add.Or.3450-3452 Scroll painting cut into three sections illustrating the tigers’ god and the Hindu goddess, Kali. By Jitu Citrakar, village Choto Cha ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.3450-3452 Scroll painting cut into three sections illustrating the tigers’ god and the Hindu goddess, Kali. By Jitu Citrakar, village Choto Chapuria, Tesaria circle, Dumka subdivision, Santal Parganas, Bihar, c.1920. Water-colour; width 250 mm. Collected by W.G. Archer, 1944. Purchas...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1919-1921
Extent:
3 items

314. Add Or 3451

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3451
Title:
Figures drumming and dancing. Artist(s): Jitu Chitrakar (fl.1920s)
Scope & Content:
Figures drumming and dancing. Above, two tall figures, one of them with a chain; between them a smaller figure leaping around with small sticks. Below, a line of three men, the first with a gong, the second with a ‘tamak,’ the third with ‘a tumdak’.’ All have blackish grey skins.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

315. Add Or 3452

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3452
Title:
Four figures with swords, Hindu goddess Kali, two attending figures sucking blood from two human heads.. Artist(s): Jitu Chitrakar (fl.1920s)
Scope & Content:
At the top, four figures with sword sticks. Below the Hindu goddess, Kali, black with red tongue and aureole, four-armed standing on a prone figure holding two freshly-cut human heads (one of which is being gnawed by a dog); on either side two attending figures sucking blood from two human head...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

316. Add Or 3453

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3453
Title:
Hor Raja mounted on a brown horse.. Artist(s): Paneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1920-1930)
Scope & Content:
Hor Raja (chief of the Santal tribe) mounted on a brown horse.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

317. Add Or 3453-3456

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3453-3456
Title:
Add.Or.3453-3456 Scroll painting cut into four sections personifying the Santal clans. By Panesvar Citrakar, village Sitasal, Lakhanpur circle, Dumka ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.3453-3456 Scroll painting cut into four sections personifying the Santal clans. By Panesvar Citrakar, village Sitasal, Lakhanpur circle, Dumka subdivision, Santal Parganas, Bihar, c1920. Water-colour; width 211 mm. Collected by W.G. Archer, 1944. Purchased 1974. Note: The occupation...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1919-1921
Extent:
4 items

318. Add Or 3454

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3454
Title:
Three Soren sepoys.. Artist(s): Paneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1920-1930)
Scope & Content:
Three Soren sepoys (members of the soldier clan) marching in tunics and trousers, wearing boots and carrying clubs on their left shoulders.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

319. Add Or 3455

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3455
Title:
Four Hembrom courtiers or princes.. Artist(s): Paneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1920-1930)
Scope & Content:
Four Hembrom courtiers or princes, wearing shoes and trousers, their right arms upraised as if hailing a ruler. Below, a spotted deer looking over its shoulder at a dog biting its tail, a second dog, thinly delineated, following.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

320. Add Or 3456

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3456
Title:
A Murmu (priest clan). Artist(s): Paneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1920-1930)
Scope & Content:
A Murmu (priest clan) lolling on a blue elephant and holding a blue axe.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item