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1. Add Or 3395-3398

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Add Or 3395-3398
Title:
Add.Or.3395-3398 Scroll painting cut into four sections illustrating the Baha festival and Death’s kingdom. By a jadupatua of village Sonajori, Pakaur ...
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Add.Or.3395-3398 Scroll painting cut into four sections illustrating the Baha festival and Death’s kingdom. By a jadupatua of village Sonajori, Pakaur subdivision, Santal Parganas district, Bihar, c.1930. Water-colour; width 275 mm. Collected by W.G. Archer, 1944. Purchased 1974. Note: For...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1929-1931
Extent:
4 items

2. Add Or 3397

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Add Or 3397
Title:
The Baha festival.
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. (1) The procession of six villagers returning from the grove, the priest leading them, the basket now containing only three fowls, a Santal woman washing the priest’s feet. (2) A Santal seated before a large post, resting on three round stones and ladling from it rice-beer; ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

3. Add Or 3396

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Add Or 3396
Title:
The Baha festival.
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. (1) At the top, seven Santal villagers carrying a cloth, a pot, a winnowing fan and a basket with five fowls going in procession to the sacred grove, two of their number blowing on buffalo horns. (2) At the grove (indicated by four schematised trees), the ‘naeke’ or village ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

4. Add Or 3398

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Add Or 3398
Title:
Scenes from Death's kingdom.
Scope & Content:
Scenes in Death’s kingdom. (1) Death, holding in one hand his book of punishments and in the other his club, sentences an evil-doer who is suspended by the hair before him by a huge demon. (2) A row of five Santals undergoing different punishments; a man ‘who drove away his parents’ has a larg...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

5. Add Or 3395

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Add Or 3395
Title:
Two majestic figures with angular heads and skirts standing on either side of a slim figure who is mounted on a stool.
Scope & Content:
Two majestic figures with angular heads and skirts standing on either side of a slim female figure who is mounted on a stool. The figure to the left has a green face; the figure to the right a white one. Below them, a monkey seated on a string bed in front of a leafy tree behind which a small ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

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