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331. Add Or 3465

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3465
Title:
The Baha festival - monkey. Artist(s): Paneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1920-1930)
Scope & Content:
A monkey-like figure, white with black markings, engaged in urgent converse with a brown stork-like bird with black wings. Below, two Santals addressing a brown figure with two heads and four arms, holding a quoit, arrow and conch-shell and mounted on a brown bird. Reproduced: M. Archer (1967)...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

332. Add Or 3466

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3466
Title:
The Baha festival - procession to grove. Artist(s): Paneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1920-1930)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Above, four Santals in a line proceeding to the sacred grove; below, four further Santals, headed by the priest with a pot, winnowing fan and axe, the third Santal with a basket on his head, the last in the line blowing a buffalo horn.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

333. Add Or 3467

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3467
Title:
The Baha festival - sacrifice. Artist(s): Paneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1920-1930)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Above, a tree on which two cloths have been hung. To the right, the priest kneeling, holding a fowl with an axe beside him, behind him a Santal blowing a buffalo horn to the left, two further Santals standing, one of them (the ‘kudam naeke’ or field priest) holding a chicken...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

334. Add Or 3468

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3468
Title:
The Baha festival. - return. Artist(s): Paneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1920-1930)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. The priest with two followers returning to the village where he is welcomed by a Santal woman with a pot. The priest carries a sprig of sal-tree blossom, a winnowing fan and an axe his immediate follower blows a buffalo horn, the third holds a pot. Below, four Santals drink...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

335. Add Or 3469

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3469
Title:
The Baha festival - bullock and python. Artist(s): Paneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1920-1930)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. A bullock on the further side of a tree, its tail held by a Santal boy who shows his teeth. To the left, a Santal about to fell it with the butt-end of an axe. Below, two Santals bringing a python to a third Santal, who stirs a pot. At the bottom, a drunk Santal supported.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

336. 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

337. Add Or 3470-3472

Reference (shelfmark):
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

338. 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

339. 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

340. Add Or 3473

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3473
Title:
Hor Raja mounted on a brown horse.. Artist(s): Budeshwar Chitrakar (fl. c.1940)
Scope & Content:
Hor Raja (chief of the Santal tribe) mounted on a brown horse.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1940
Extent:
1 Item