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Theyyam festival - Rakteswari Theyyam - Naga Kali, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Description:
Rakteswari Theyyam: Naga Kali. The goddess Rakteswari (Rakteshwari, Rikteswari) is transformed into a triumphant cobra, having eaten the raw eggs. Side view of ritual dancer with enormous twenty (?) foot figure of a cobra made of slats of palm wood attached to his back. The central bamboo “spine” of the cobra extends about 5 feet upwards from the dancer’s head. Two drawings of smaller cobras are attached to the giant upright cobra, as if they are swimming upwards. The figure’s similarity to a penis and scrotum with travelling sperm evokes the ritual’s objective of increasing fertility. Dancer begins to bow forward in a movement that will eventually lower the snake’s mouth to the ground.
Date:
April 6, 1984
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Theyyam festival - Rakteswari Theyyam - Naga Kali, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Theyyam festival - Mudiyeṭṭu mythological dance drama, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Description:
Siva Narada episode. The goddess Kali emerges above the curtain. An attendant lights a cotton torch at the oil lamp. Instruments not seen include: vik ceṇḍa (chenda), jālra, kuzhal (double-reed aerophone with straight tube), (generator noise). Pazhur Damodara Marar and party. Musicians: Kuruppanmar Marar.
Date:
April 7, 1984
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Theyyam festival - Mudiyeṭṭu mythological dance drama, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Theyyam festival - Pulluvan Sarpam pāṭṭu/Sarpam thullal, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Description:
Sarpam pāṭṭu (song in honor of the snake god) / thullal (dance that imitates the movement of a snake), a serpent trance healing ritual enactment with a kalam ritual floor drawing. A kalam drawing of a five-headed naga serpent, drawn with colored powders on the pounded earth floor. A pujari sits below drawing of snakes’ heads. Ritual objects including diya oil lamps, coconuts, flowers and supari blossoms adorn the kalam. The leader is V. P. Bahuleyan.
Date:
April 6, 1984
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Theyyam festival - Pulluvan Sarpam pāṭṭu/Sarpam thullal, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Theyyam festival - Rakteswari Theyyam - Naga Kali, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Description:
Rakteswari Theyyam: Naga Kali. The goddess Rakteswari (Rakteshwari, Rikteswari) is transformed into triumphant cobra, having eaten the raw eggs. Front view of ritual dancer in an altered state of consciousness, with an enormous twenty (?) foot cobra figure made of slats of palm wood attached to his back. The central bamboo “spine” of the cobra extends about 15 feet above the dancer’s head. Three drawings of small cobras are attached to the giant upright cobra, as if they are swimming upwards. The figure’s similarity to a penis and scrotum with travelling sperm-like cobras evokes the ritual’s objective of increasing fertility. Spectators watch.
Date:
April 6, 1984
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Theyyam festival - Rakteswari Theyyam - Naga Kali, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Theyyam festival - Pulluvan Sarpam thullal ritual enactment, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Description:
Sarpam pāṭṭu (song in honor of the snake god) / thullal (dance that imitates the movement of a snake), a serpent trance healing ritual enactment with a kalam ritual floor drawing. A Kalliasseri Festival Pulluvan ritualist stands near center of the kalam ritual drawing of a five-headed naga serpent and covers his face with areca blossoms. The Leader is V. P. Bahuleyan.
Date:
April 7, 1984
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Theyyam festival - Pulluvan Sarpam thullal ritual enactment, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Theyyam festival - Rakteswari Theyyam - Naga Kali, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Description:
Rakteswari Theyyam: Naga Kali. The goddess Rakteswari (Rakteshwari, Rikteswari) is transformed into a triumphant cobra, having eaten the raw eggs. Front view of ritual dancer with enormous twenty (?) foot figure of a cobra made of slats of palm wood attached to his back. The central bamboo “spine” of the cobra extends about 15 feet upwards from the dancer’s head. Two drawings of smaller cobras are attached to the giant upright cobra, as if they are swimming upwards. The figure’s similarity to a penis and scrotum with travelling sperm evokes the ritual’s objective of increasing fertility.
Date:
April 6, 1984
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Theyyam festival - Rakteswari Theyyam - Naga Kali, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Theyyam festival - Cākyār kuthu "Hanuman Pira" narrative, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Description:
Cākyār kuthu , a one-man narrative form. “Hanuman Pira” Story of Hanuman performed by P. K. G. Nambiar. This is a one-man monologue storytelling comic genre on the birth and tales of Hanuman (Hanuman pira, Hanuman ouva). The storyteller made fun of shortening names like “Radhakrishnan” (a man’s name) to “Radha” (a woman’s name).
Date:
April 6, 1984
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Theyyam festival - Cākyār kuthu "Hanuman Pira" narrative, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Theyyam festival - Padayāni Theyyam ritual mask dance, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Description:
Padayāni are a “row of soldiers” sent by Lord Siva at Lord Subrahmanya’s request to cool Goddess Kali’s anger, aroused the previous night during the Mudiyeṭṭu Theyyam when she fought and killed the demon Darika. The “soldiers” imitate the Goddess’ wrath, which causes her to laugh and forget her anger. In this image, Bhairavi: representing the hideous goddess Bhadrakali. A painted kolam mask, enormous crown, breastplate with jutting breasts and triangular waist piece, all made of areca tree laths. Performed by Guru P. K. Madhavan (Pillai) and party.
Date:
April 8, 1984
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Theyyam festival - Padayāni Theyyam ritual mask dance, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Kota musician, Pukali, plays a pulāng (?), Ticgār (Trichagadi, India), 1984

Description:
Kota musician playing a pulāng (?), a small (ca. 10”) bamboo idioglot clarinet pulāng. It is not a bugīr trumpet, which was filmed during this excursion and is about 3 feet long with 6 holes in front and with two integral 2” branch stems. The player looks like B. Kamatn (aka Pukali), according to Richard K. Wolf. Two Kota men stand behind the musician and watch.
Date:
April 13, 1984
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Kota musician, Pukali, plays a pulāng (?), Ticgār (Trichagadi, India), 1984

Theyyam festival - Padayāni Theyyam ritual mask dance, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Description:
Padayāni are a “row of soldiers” sent by Lord Siva at Lord Subrahmanya’s request to cool Goddess Kali’s anger, aroused the previous night during the Mudiyeṭṭu Theyyam when she fought and killed the demon Darika. The “soldiers” imitate the Goddess’ wrath, which causes her to laugh and forget her anger. In this image, a “soldier” Gaṇapati, with a short dhoti and bare chest. Performed by Guru P. K. Madhavan (Pillai) and party.
Date:
April 8, 1984
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Theyyam festival - Padayāni Theyyam ritual mask dance, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Amma Darabeedha

Description:
Poster appears to be an advertisement for a music recording by Bilisee Karrasaa (Bilo) and depicts a photograph of her wearing a white button-up shirt, smiling, and raising her fists to her torso; a cropped black-and-white version of the same photograph appears in a narrow bar to the left, with a smaller cropped color version of the photograph above it on illustrated steps and overlapping an illustrated starburst.
Date:
[2007?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Ethiopian Posters
Amma Darabeedha

Gumaata Sabaa

Description:
At the bottom left is the contact information and logo of Star Music Shop [Mana Muziqaa Histaar?].
Date:
[between 2009 and 2010?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Ethiopian Posters
Gumaata Sabaa

Tasfaayyee Alamuu

Description:
Poster depicts a photomontage of the following: a man with a moustache and goatee, wearing a white and yellow striped button-up shirt and jeans and putting his hands in his jeans; a photograph of the same man wearing a black button-up shirt, white pants, and white sneakers and sitting on a chair in front of a blue backdrop; background is a close-up of woven wicker.
Date:
[2009]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Ethiopian Posters
Tasfaayyee Alamuu

Ijaabaasuun kan waaqayyooti

Description:
Poster appears to advertise a music recording and depicts a photograph of a man wearing a denim jacket, jeans, and a striped button-up shirt; at the bottom left is a small photograph of a man in a striped long-sleeved shirt and a man in a light yellow button-up shirt; background is brown with an illustrated treble clef.
Date:
[2010]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Ethiopian Posters
Ijaabaasuun kan waaqayyooti

Fira Ilkaanii Malee

Description:
Poster depicts a photograph of a man in an untucked striped button-up shirt with his thumbs in his pants pockets; the photograph is duplicated, shrunken, reversed, and tinted green in the lower left.
Date:
[2009?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Ethiopian Posters
Fira Ilkaanii Malee

Gezahegn Mussie

Description:
Poster depicts a photograph of an eagle radiating purple with a photograph of a cloudy sky in the background; bottom border is purple, with a photograph of Gezahegn Mussie sitting in a recording studio with another man, possibly Fisiha F/Silase.
Date:
[2010]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Ethiopian Posters
Gezahegn Mussie