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11. Add Or 3508

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A suppliant figure kneeling before a four -headed, two-armed figure with massive head-dress. Below, two rows of 18 heads.. Artist(s): Kirtan Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
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A suppliant figure with long scarf kneeling before a four-headed, two-armed figure with massive head-dress seated on a cot. Below, two rows of eighteen severed heads - the top row dripping blood in a thin trickle, the lower row surmounting a series of yellow and reddish brown stripes (streams o...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

12. Add Or 3509

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Title:
Eight Vaisnava devotees engaged in kirtan chanting praise of Krishna (Hari), with musicians. A bullock about to be sacrificed. Two headless corpses, their severed heads below them.. Artist(s): Kirtan Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
Eight Vaisnava devotees engaged in ‘kirtan’ chanting praise of Krishna (Hari). In the centre a drummer with thin cylindrical drum, on either side of him a figure clashing cymbals, to the left, a figure with upraised arms, on the right, two further figures also with upraised arms. Below them tw...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

13. Add Or 3510

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Three man in a row seated before cooking pots piled one above another. Below, a pair of men and a pair of women, one chastising the other with a broom.. Artist(s): Kirtan Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
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Three men in a row seated before three cooking pots piled one above another. Below, a pair of men and a pair of women, one chastising the other with a ‘broom’. Inscribed in Bengali characters, above: ‘anna kiniya khai’ (we buy rice for our food); below: ‘jhatar bari’ (to beat with a broom). N...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

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