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Description:: Close-up frontal view of Kunyāttu Kārnavar and the top of his kuzhal, showing the reeds in the mouthpiece.
Date:: April 4, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Kunyāttu Kārnavar, seated, plays a kuzhal. A boy in the background, on the left, looks at the camera.
Date:: April 4, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Kunyāttu Kārnavar, seated, plays a kuzhal. A boy in the background, on the left, looks at the camera.
Date:: April 4, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Bishop Mar Aprem (left), of the Syrian Christian Church, Nestorian Church of the East. Deacon E. L. Verghese (right) (ordained in 1929), remembers someone (A. A. Bake) recording the Deacons in 1938.
Date:: April 4, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Pulluvan Pena pāṭṭu (“woman’s song”) for a ritual healing ceremony. (Left:) A Pulluvan man taps a kinnam brass bowl resting on a kudam clay pot. (Center:) A Pulluvan boy sings and plays a small Pulluvan kudam variable-tension chordophone, with a clay pot resonator, while leading five Pulluvan singers. (Right:) A second Pulluvan man plays a Pulluvān kudam variable-tension chordophone, with clay pot resonator. Two Pulluvatis (Pulluvan women) sing behind them. One is playing jālra bronze cymbals. The group leader is A.C. Narayanan Vaidyar (Arayalin Chalil House, Kuppam PO, Kannur).
Date:: April 6, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Rakteswari Theyyam: Naga Kali. The goddess Rakteswari (Rakteshwari, Rikteswari) is transformed into a triumphant cobra, having eaten ten raw eggs. Front view of the ritual dancer with 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 upwards from the dancer’s head. Three images of small cobras are attached to the giant upright cobra headdress, as if they are swimming upwards toward the cobra’s head. The figure’s similarity to a penis with travelling sperm 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

Description:: Rakteswari Theyyam: The demon transforms into Rakteswari (Rakteshwari, Rikteswari). The Mother Goddess: Because the Bhagavati has been satisfied by the offering of a chicken symbolizing the human child fetus, she appears here in a form with a large headdress and grass (split palm frond) skirt, dancing joyfully to bless the audience. Profile view of Goddess screaming fearfully. Male audience members watch intently.
Date:: April 6, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Rakteswari Theyyam: Naga Kali. The goddess transformed into Rakteswari (Rakteshwari, Rikteswari), with a cobra image on her crown and areca blossoms in her hands, after she killed the demon Mahishasura and drank his blood. Men restrain the Goddess’ wrists to reduce her destructive fury. Malayan keṭṭu is connected to Velikkala Pattu: to help a lady conceive, to remove a curse. The lady holding the areca leaves is the patient.
Date:: April 6, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Rakteswari Theyyam: Naga Kali. The goddess Rakteswari (Rakteshwari, Rikteswari) with a cobra image on crown and areca blossoms in her hands, lies prone and devours raw eggs from a banana leaf. Ceṇḍa (chenda) drummers play behind her.
Date:: April 6, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Rakteswari Theyyam: The demon transforms into Rakteswari (Rakteshwari, Rikteswari). The Mother Goddess: Because the Bhagavati has been satisfied by the offering of a chicken symbolizing the human child fetus, she appears here in a form with a large headdress and grass (split palm frond) skirt, dancing joyfully to bless the audience.
Date:: April 6, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

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