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1. Add Or 3444

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3444
Title:
The Baha festival - three figures. Artist(s): Jitu Chitrakar (fl.1920s)
Scope & Content:
Two skirted figures in brown and reddish orange, with short knob-tipped stumps as arms, standing on either side of a female figure, thinner but only slightly less tall. The left figure with black head, the right figure with brown head. Below, lotus flowers and stalks (?). Note: For Puri paint...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

2. Add Or 3444-3449

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3444-3449
Title:
Add.Or.3444-3449 Scroll painting cut into six sections depicting the Baha festival. By Jitu Citrakar, village Choto Chapuria, Tesaria circle, Dumka ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.3444-3449 Scroll painting cut into six sections depicting the Baha festival. By Jitu Citrakar, village Choto Chapuria, Tesaria circle, Dumka subdivision, Santal Parganas district, Bihar, c.1920. Water-colour; width 250 mm. Collected by W.G. Archer, 1944. Purchased 1974.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1919-1921
Extent:
6 items

3. Add Or 3445

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3445
Title:
The Baha festival - white monkey. Artist(s): Jitu Chitrakar (fl.1920s)
Scope & Content:
Above, a white monkey with black spots talking to a group of four Santals, two of them holding umbrellas; in their midst, a brown bird with long beak. Below three Santal men encountering a three-headed figure with orange red ‘crown’ mounted on a large brown bird; below two small Santal women. ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

4. Add Or 3446

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3446
Title:
The Baha festival - procession to the grove. Artist(s): Jitu Chitrakar (fl.1920s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. A line of Santals, headed by the ‘naeke’ (priest), going to the ‘jaher’ (sacred grove); below, a Santal boy climbing a sal tree to throw down blossom, four other Santals standing by, the priest sacrificing a chicken by cutting its throat on the upturned edge of a battle-axe. ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

5. Add Or 3447

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3447
Title:
The Baha festival - dancing. Artist(s): Jitu Chitrakar (fl.1920s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha Festival. Five Santal women dancing the Baha dance with sprays of sal-tree blossom in their hair, accompanied by two Santal drummers, the left one with a ‘tumdak’,’ the other with a ‘tamak.’ Below the Baha dance continuing, a woman with a spray of sal-tree blossom in her hair, four me...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

6. Add Or 3448

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3448
Title:
The Baha festival - sacrifice of bullock and python. Artist(s): Jitu Chitrakar (fl.1920s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Killing a bullock and python. Above, a bullock is led to a tree, a Santal holding its tall and another Santal preparing to fell it with the butt-end of an axe. To the left, a Santal with a knife; up in the tree, another Santal. Below, three Santals, two of them with knives...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

7. Add Or 3449

Reference (shelfmark):
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

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