Add.Or.3522-3523 Scroll painting cut into two sections personifying Santal clans. By a jadupatua of Jamtara subdivision, Santal Parganas district, Bih ...
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Add.Or.3522-3523 Scroll painting cut into two sections personifying Santal clans. By a jadupatua of Jamtara subdivision, Santal Parganas district, Bihar, c.1930. Water-colour; width 200 mm. Collected by W.G. Archer, 1945. Purchased 1974.
Three Soren sepoys (members of the soldier clan), dressed in white trousers with black stripes, coats edged with pink and with black shoes, two of them holding muskets, the third a sword. The soldier to the left carries a ‘nargila’ pipe, the centre figure has a bird. Below, a spotted stag look...