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1. Add Or 3380

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3380
Title:
Scenes at a fair ground. Artist(s): Babulal and Surendra Chitrakar (fl. 1930)
Scope & Content:
Scenes at a fair ground. At the top on either side, two large figures wearing red jackets, dancing breeches and peacock feathers; the figure to the left holding a long cylindrical drum ‘(tumdak’),’ the figure to the right holding a stout stick. Between them, two small Santal figures executing ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

2. Add Or 3381

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3381
Title:
Scene at a fair ground.. Artist(s): Babulal and Surendra Chitrakar (fl. 1930)
Scope & Content:
Scenes at a fair ground. Five Santal girls and seven boys dancing at a jatra. In the top row, small figures, explained by the artists as ‘shown small but really grown up’, are trying to pull the girls away; in the bottom row a third boy also pulling at a girl. To the left two drummers, one wi...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

3. Add Or 3379

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3379
Title:
A large tiger with yellow skin, red tongue and black spots mounted by a Muslim figure.. Artist(s): Babulal and Surendra Chitrakar (fl. 1930)
Scope & Content:
A large ‘tiger’ with yellow skin, red tongue and black spots mounted by a Muslim figure, bareheaded, holding a rosary and club. Below, three Muslim worshippers standing before a conical structure, two of them pulling both ends of a scarf round their necks. Reproduced: M. Archer (1970), pl.70. ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

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