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Theyyam festival - Kummāṭṭī Thumbi pāṭṭu “Dragonfly Song” performance, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Description:
Kummāṭṭī (Kummattikali) is a mask dance of Kerala. Image of a Kummāṭṭī Thumbi pāṭṭu “Dragonfly Song” performance of a “play song” usually performed in door-to-door processions during Onam. Nayar male teens play on a villu kottu striking their bows. Three singing, masked dancers are covered in kummatti leaves. Two of them beat a masked old woman walking with a stick, the mother Thamma, because she is “licentious” and is too friendly with the audience. The actor on the left wears a black mask and crown-like headdress, the mother Thamma character wears an old woman mask and a white cloth headdress. Performed by V. P. Paul and party.
Date:
April 6, 1984
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Theyyam festival - Kummāṭṭī Thumbi pāṭṭu “Dragonfly Song” performance, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Theyyam festival - Kummāṭṭī Thumbi pāṭṭu “Dragonfly Song” performance, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Description:
Kummāṭṭī (Kummattikali) is a mask dance of Kerala. Image of a Kummāṭṭī Thumbi pāṭṭu “Dragonfly Song” performance of a “play song” usually performed in door-to-door processions during Onam. Nayar male teens play on a villu kottu striking their bows. Three singing, masked dancers are covered in kummatti leaves. Two of them beat a masked old woman walking with a stick, the mother Thamma, because she is “licentious” and is too friendly with the audience. The actor on the left wears a black mask and crown-like headdress; the mother Thamma character wears an old woman mask and a white cloth headdress. Performed by V. P. Paul and party.
Date:
April 6, 1984
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Theyyam festival - Kummāṭṭī Thumbi pāṭṭu “Dragonfly Song” performance, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Theyyam festival - Malayan Keṭṭu: Pillai Theeni Theyyam - demon transformed, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Description:
Pillai Theeni Theyyam: The demon has transformed into pustule infested skin, wearing a split palm leaf skirt, with flames in his split palm leaf headdress. He is being restrained by the ritualists from attacking the "pregnant" woman, who is hiding behind a bunch of areca blossoms and sitting near singers, ceṇḍa (chenda) and smaller viku ceṇḍa drummers and cymbal players. The demon is played by the Malayan dancer and teacher P.K. Panicker (Pallipurattu House, Kizhara PO, Cannanore. Malayan and Panan communities).
Date:
April 6, 1984
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Theyyam festival - Malayan Keṭṭu: Pillai Theeni Theyyam - demon transformed, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Theyyam festival - Velikkala pāṭṭu healing exorcism of the Pulaya community, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Description:
This ceremony is a puja to introduce the velikkala, a ritual to help a woman conceive. The image shows a moment during a Velikkala exorcism; a kalam figure with its face painted black in the background on the right, with a sword and wearing a crown and a short white circle skirt; the 6th item of the performance. An offering tree of banana leaves and areca blossoms is in the center of the performance area. (Performed by Panayi Kumaran and party of the Pulayar community. Panan Kandy, Kokkalur P.O. Calicut District, Kerala).
Date:
April 8, 1984
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Theyyam festival - Velikkala pāṭṭu healing exorcism of the Pulaya community, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Theyyam festival - Velikkala pāṭṭu healing exorcism of the Pulaya community, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Description:
A kaḷameḻuttȧ (ritual drawing of designs on floor with colored powder) of Goddess Kali with 8 arms angrily slaying a demon using a thin lance, depicted using colored powders on a concrete floor. The two-dimensional image of the Goddess contains three-dimensional breasts rising like mountains from the floor. The demon’s forehead is marked with the trident of Siva. (Performed by Panayi Kumaran and party of the Pulayar community. Panan Kandy, Kokkalur P.O. Calicut District, Kerala).
Date:
April 8, 1984
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Theyyam festival - Velikkala pāṭṭu healing exorcism of the Pulaya community, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Theyyam festival - Velikkala pāṭṭu healing exorcism of the Pulaya community, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Description:
A kaḷameḻuttȧ (ritual drawing of designs on floor with colored powder) of Goddess Kali with 8 arms angrily slaying a demon using a thin lance, depicted using colored powders on a concrete floor. The two-dimensional image of the Goddess contains three-dimensional breasts rising like mountains from the floor. The demon’s forehead is marked with the trident of Siva. (Performed by Panayi Kumaran and party of the Pulayar community. Panan Kandy, Kokkalur P.O. Calicut District, Kerala).
Date:
April 8, 1984
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Theyyam festival - Velikkala pāṭṭu healing exorcism of the Pulaya community, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

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

Description:
Pulluvan sarpam thullal enactment at the Kalliasseri Theyyam Festival. A Pulluvan priest anoints the trance medium with coconut water, as they stand beside a five-headed serpent’s image, depicted in a kalam ritual drawing made of colored powders. Two Pulluvan musicians play Pulluvan vīṇā bowed fiddle chordophones with udumbu (uṭumpu) monitor lizard skin belly.
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 - Pulluvan Sarpam thullal ritual enactment, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Description:
Pulluvan sarpam thullal enactment at the Kalliasseri Theyyam Festival. A Pulluvan husband, Pulluvati wife, and two Pulluvan children perform a trance medium’s dance (thullal: vibration, dance), scattering the colored powders with their feet. Pulluvan man enacts trance possession as his body writhes over the colored powders, mixing them and merging himself with the serpent deity
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 - Pulluvan Sarpam thullal ritual enactment, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Description:
Pulluvan sarpam thullal enactment at the Kalliasseri Theyyam Festival. A Pulluvan performs a trance medium’s dance (thullal: vibration, dance), flailing his arms while dancing on a kalam ritual drawing made of colored powders, scattering the colored powders with his feet. Pulluvati and two Pulluvan children engage in the trance enactment.
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

Durgā-pūjā Mahotsav festival - J. R. Yadav and another musician, Dhobi Talao (Mumbai, India), 1963

Description:
J. R. Yadav in white hat playing (shehnai double-reed aerophone) and another musician playing surpeṭī at the Durgā-pūjā Mahotsav festival during a recording session. The festival was held at the Cross Maidan garden in Dhobi Talao neighborhood.
Date:
October 24, 1963
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Durgā-pūjā Mahotsav festival - J. R. Yadav and another musician, Dhobi Talao (Mumbai, India), 1963

Dhol-Lezim dance troupe dancers and musicians, Lonāvale (India), 1963

Description:
Dhol-Lezim (Lejim) mandal dance troupe (Ram Mandir Gawli: Ram Temple Milkmen) perform a baithak (seated) dance. Percussionists stand and play a tāsa shallow bowl drum (let) and a large ḍhol (center) while dancers seated in two lines play jhāñjh bronze cymbals and lezim sticks with jingling cymbals loosely attached. The man closest to the drummers, seated at the end of the left line leads the dancers by blowing a whistle and clapping.
Date:
December 13, 1963
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Dhol-Lezim dance troupe dancers and musicians, Lonāvale (India), 1963

Dhol-Lezim dance troupe dancers and musicians, Lonāvale (India), 1963

Description:
Dhol-Lezim (Lejim) mandal dance troupe (Ram Mandir Gawli: Ram Temple Milkmen) perform a baithak (seated) dance. Percussionists stand and play a tāsa shallow bowl drum (left) and a large ḍhol (center) while seated dancers play jhāñjh bronze cymbals and lezim sticks with jingling cymbals loosely attached.
Date:
December 13, 1963
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Dhol-Lezim dance troupe dancers and musicians, Lonāvale (India), 1963

Shell instruments of the Konda-Reddi people, Hyderabad (India), 1963

Description:
Ghunghru type, Gillakalu (shell rattle ?), used by the Konda-Reddi (Hill Reddi) people, Khammam district. Made of cowrie shells, cypraeoidea, each pierced with one hole and threaded together with others in clusters of 6 or 7 shells. One set (left) is attached to a wooden handle to shake by the hand; the other is attached to a mirror and tied to a dancer’s ankle, similar to the ghunghru of kathak classical dance. A.P. photo. Possession of the Tribal Cultural Research and Training Institute.
Date:
December 21, 1963
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Shell instruments of the Konda-Reddi people, Hyderabad (India), 1963

Shell instruments of the Konda-Reddi people, Hyderabad (India), 1963

Description:
Ghunghru type, Gillakalu (shell rattle ?), used by the Konda-Reddi (Hill Reddi) people, Khammam district. Made of cowrie shells, cypraeoidea, each pierced with one hole and threaded together with others in clusters of 6 or 7 shells. One set (L) is attached to a wooden handle to shake by the hand; the other is attached to a mirror and tied to a dancer’s ankle, similar to the ghunghru of kathak classical dance. A.P. photo. Possession of the Tribal Cultural Research and Training Institute.
Date:
December 21, 1963
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Shell instruments of the Konda-Reddi people, Hyderabad (India), 1963

Two-headed clay drum (madiala ?), of the Bagata people, Hyderabad (India), 1963

Description:
Two-headed clay drum, a vase-type pot drum, with paste on both sides (madiala?). An instrument of the Bagata (Bhagatā) people and other tribes in Āraku Valley. “Paste” refers to weighted paste applied on both drumheads. The image shows the smaller head, usually played by the right hand. A.P. photo. Possession of the Tribal Cultural Research and Training Institute.
Date:
December 21, 1963
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Two-headed clay drum (madiala ?), of the Bagata people, Hyderabad (India), 1963

Maharashtrian instruments: ektara, dimdi, dipri / kartāl, and jhāñjh, Miraj (India), 1963

Description:
On the porch in front of the shop of Abdul Karim Ismail Saheb, Maharashtrian instruments used to accompany songs such as Marathi abhang and bhakti git, and Hindi bhajan: ektara (two-string drone lute), dimdi (small frame membranophone); dipri/kartāl (wooden clappers), and jhāñjh (small hand cymbals).
Date:
December 19, 1963
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Maharashtrian instruments: ektara, dimdi, dipri / kartāl, and jhāñjh, Miraj (India), 1963

Ḍholki in the shop of Abdul Karim Ismail Saheb, Miraj (India), 1963

Description:
Ḍholki, resting on a textile at the shop of Abdul Karim Ismail Sahab. The ḍholki is a small double-headed membranophone. Cotton lacing is tightened with the dumbbell-shaped wooden or metal tighteners. The smaller, higher-pitched head (left) is usually played by right hand, and the larger, lower-pitched head (right) is usually played by left hand.
Date:
December 19, 1963
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Ḍholki in the shop of Abdul Karim Ismail Saheb, Miraj (India), 1963

Om Periyaswamy with Nāiyāndī Mēḷam musicians with instruments, Madurai (India), 1984

Description:
Overhead shot of Nāiyāndī Mēḷam musicians with instruments. From left: Arunachalam Pillai (?); Cuppiramaniyan with hand taḷām cymbals, in a dark blue shirt and lunghi; Kalidasa (in profile) plays a pambai drum pair; Om Periyaswamy; Venkatesan, seen from the back, plays a tavil double-headed membranophone; a tamukku musician in a light blue shirt and white shawl; Mukkasāmi, leader, Paraiyan (non-hereditary musician) from Karamattur, plays a sattakulai (cattak kuḻāy) multiple reed aerophone; Conai, just behind Mukkasāmi, plays urumbi (urummi, uṟumi) double-headed variable tension membranophone; and an unidentified man wearing dark blue pants. Recorded outdoors near TamilNadu Hotel.
Date:
March 14, 1984
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Om Periyaswamy with Nāiyāndī Mēḷam musicians with instruments, Madurai (India), 1984

Om Periyaswamy dance troupe - Karakāṭṭam dance with a dancer in a karana pose as two dancers balance clay pots on their heads, Madurai (India), 1984

Description:
Karakāṭṭam dance, an acrobatic dance performed with pots balanced on the head, in praise of the rain goddess Mariamman. A young dancing woman balances a bowl of pink roses, topped by a flying parrot, on her head, while standing on her bent right leg, and holding the toes of her bent left leg behind her shoulder, while looking facing away from the viewer toward the back wall. A large cluster of jasmine flowers rests on the nape of her neck, from which flows her long braided hair. Her right arm is stretched forward from her body, with her wrist flexed. She is wearing a silk classical dance costume with pleated front skirt, legs wrapped, choli blouse, and ghunghru ankle bells. This type of acrobatic dance pose (karana) was done by devadāsī temple dancers in the past. At the TamilNadu Hotel.
Date:
March 14, 1984
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Om Periyaswamy dance troupe - Karakāṭṭam dance with a dancer in a karana pose as two dancers balance clay pots on their heads, Madurai (India), 1984

Om Periyaswamy with Nāiyāndī Mēḷam musicians filmed - Saraswathi Swaminathan and Ram Gaekwad with Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy, Madurai (India), 1984

Description:
Saraswathi Swaminathan (archivist for the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology) in cotton sari smiles at camera as she holds teacup and saucer for Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy as he records musicians on VHS video camera. Ram Gaekwad (driver for the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology), village men and boys watch. At TamilNadu Hotel.
Date:
March 14, 1984
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Om Periyaswamy with Nāiyāndī Mēḷam musicians filmed - Saraswathi Swaminathan and Ram Gaekwad with Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy, Madurai (India), 1984

Om Periyaswamy with Nāiyāndī Mēḷam musicians filmed - Saraswathi Swaminathan and Ram Gaekwad with Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy, Madurai (India), 1984

Description:
Saraswathi Swaminathan (archivist for the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology) in cotton sari smiles at camera as she holds teacup and saucer for Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy as he records musicians on VHS video camera. Ram Gaekwad (driver for the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology), village men and boys watch. At TamilNadu Hotel.
Date:
March 14, 1984
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Om Periyaswamy with Nāiyāndī Mēḷam musicians filmed - Saraswathi Swaminathan and Ram Gaekwad with Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy, Madurai (India), 1984

Om Periyaswamy dance troupe - Karakāṭṭam dance with a dancer in a karana pose, Madurai (India), 1984

Description:
Karakāṭṭam dance, an acrobatic dance performed with pots balanced on the head, in praise of the rain goddess Mariamman. A young dancing woman balances a bowl of pink roses, topped by a flying parrot, on her head, while standing on her bent right leg, and holding the toes of her bent left leg raised level with her head. She is wearing a silk classical dance costume with a pleated front skirt, her legs wrapped, a choli blouse, and ghunghru ankle bells. This type of acrobatic dance pose (karana) was done by devadāsī temple dancers in the past. At the TamilNadu Hotel.
Date:
March 14, 1984
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Om Periyaswamy dance troupe - Karakāṭṭam dance with a dancer in a karana pose, Madurai (India), 1984