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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add Or 3450-3452

1. Add Or 3450

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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

2. Add Or 3450-3452

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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

3. Add Or 3451

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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

4. Add Or 3452

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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

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