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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add Or 3419-3423, Add Or 3826

1. Add Or 3419

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3419
Title:
Scroll painting illustrating the Baha festival. - two majestic figures with a small female
Scope & Content:
Two majestic figures standing on either side of a short female figure; the left figure with blue face and chest, the right figure with white face and chest; both figures with upraised stump-like arms ending in knobs. Yellow aurioles. Note: Modelled on the Puri Jagannatha trio but signifying to...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

2. Add Or 3419-3423, Add Or 3826

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3419-3423, Add Or 3826
Title:
Add.Or.3419-3423; Add.Or.3826 Scroll painting in six sections illustrating the Baha festival. By a jadupatua of village Bora, Banskuli circle, Dumka s ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.3419-3423; Add.Or.3826 Scroll painting in six sections illustrating the Baha festival. By a jadupatua of village Bora, Banskuli circle, Dumka subdivision, Santal Parganas, Bihar, c.1930. Water-colour; width 195 mm. Collected by W.G. Archer, 1945. Purchased 1974.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1929-1931
Extent:
6 items

3. Add Or 3420

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3420
Title:
Scroll painting of the Baha festival. - villagers on their way to the sacred grove
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Four villagers, including the ‘naeke’ (priest) and ‘kudam naeke’ (field priest), carrying a dagger, winnowing fan, pot and a basket, on their way to the sacred grove. Below, the priest kneeling under a tree beside an up-fumed battle-axe and holding a chicken about to be sacr...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

4. Add Or 3421

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3421
Title:
Scroll painting of the Baha festival. - returning from the grove
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. The party returning from the grove. The ‘naeke’ (priest) carrying a spray of sal tree blossom in his right hand and a winnowing fan under his right arm followed by two villagers, one with a basket, the other with a pot. A Santal girl, a spray of sal tree blossom in her hair...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

5. Add Or 3422

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3422
Title:
Scroll painting of the Baha festival.- killing the bullock and python
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Killing a bullock and python. Above a bullock is led to a tree, a Santal holding its tail and two other Santals standing before it, with upraised battle-axes. Below, a python, its head in a cleft tree trunk, is about to be slaughtered by three men who stand in a row with ra...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

6. Add Or 3423

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3423
Title:
Scroll painting of the Baha festival.- Santals brewing rice beer
Scope & Content:
Merry-making at the Baha festival. A Santal brewing rice-beer. Below, a Santal striving to support a second Santal who has fallen down drunk. To the right, a third Santal tending a pot.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

7. Add Or 3826

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3826
Title:
Scroll painting illustrating the Baha festival - white monkey
Scope & Content:
A white monkey with yellow scarf addresses a large goose-like bird with yellow head, neck and feet and white and black plumage. Below a male figure with yellow skin and red scarf attended by a figure holding an umbrella approaches a four-headed four-armed figure riding on a gander. Note: Rega...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

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