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Sodi burra, instrument of the Yerukala (?) people, Hyderabad (India), 1963

Description:
Sodi burra, a 1-string stick zither with a resonator, a fortune telling instrument. The danda (neck) is of bamboo, the tuning peg is of wood, the string is attached to a nail, and the resonator is of dried pumpkin gourd. Instrument of the Yerukala (Parigamuggula Erukula) people (?). 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
Sodi burra, instrument of the Yerukala (?) people, Hyderabad (India), 1963

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

Description:
Pulluvan sarpam thullal ritual enactment at the Kalliasseri Theyyam Festival. Two Pulluvan musicians play Pulluvan vīṇā bowed fiddle chordophones with udumbu (uṭumpu) monitor lizard skin bellies (left and right). One Pulluvan musician plays a Pulluvan kudam variable tension chordophone with a clay pot resonator (center). The leader is V. P. Bahuleyan.<br>Ref. (Related Items): Ethnomusicology Archive, UCLA (coll. 198609_NA84): Bake Restudy Notes, p. 65, Jairazbhoy Diary, p. 110, Data Sheets, p. 239
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 pāṭṭu for ritual healing ceremony, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

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 plays a small Pulluvan kudam variable-tension chordophone, with 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).<br>Ref. (Related Items): Ethnomusicology Archive, UCLA (coll. 198609_NA84): Bake Restudy Notes, p. 65, Jairazbhoy Diary, p. 110, Data Sheets, p. 236
Date:
April 6, 1984
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Theyyam festival - Pulluvan pāṭṭu for ritual healing ceremony, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Sarpam Thullal Pulluvan Serpent Ritual - O. K. Raman demonstrates a Pulluvan kudam *clay "pot"), Peramangalam (India), 1984

Description:
O. K. Raman, a musician holding a Pulluvan kudam (“pot”) variable tension chordophone player during a Sarpa Thullal serpent ritual. He is seated on the pounded earthen floor with both legs bent to his right side. The large clay pot rests on his left thigh. A twisted plastic cord stretches between the leather lacing around the pot and the end of a two foot long wooden board (mumbilapatti) and bamboo tube (kutattin kuzhal) held tightly under his left shin. His right hand and his left arm support the pot, varying the tension on the string to create semi-melodic indefinite pitches. The Sarpam Thullal Pulluvan Serpent Ritual was held at a Sarpa Kaavu (snake grove) in a private home in Peramangalam village.<br>Sarpam Thullal (Dance of Snakes), is a mystical ritual of Kerala performed by a community called “Pullava,” and is performed to appease snake gods and bring prosperity to a family. The songs are called “Pulluvan Pāṭṭu.”<br>Ref. (Related Items): Ethnomusicology Archive, UCLA (coll. 198609_NA84): Bake Restudy Notes, p. 55, Jairazbhoy Diary, p. 98, Data Sheets, p. 205
Date:
April 2, 1984
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Sarpam Thullal Pulluvan Serpent Ritual - O. K. Raman demonstrates a Pulluvan kudam *clay "pot"), Peramangalam (India), 1984

Sarpam Thullal Pulluvan Serpent Ritual - L. S. Rajagopalan holds the vayannam of a Pulluvan kudam, Peramangalam (India), 1984

Description:
View of the smooth wooden vayanam (plectrum) for the Pulluvan kudam instrument, held by scholar L. S. Rajagopalan, who is shining his flashlight on the plectrum. At a Sarpam Thullal Pulluvan Serpent Ritual which was held at a Sarpa Kaavu (snake grove) in a private home in Peramangalam village.<br>Sarpam Thullal (Dance of Snakes), is a mystical ritual of Kerala performed by a community called “Pullava,” and is performed to appease snake gods and bring prosperity to a family. The songs are called “Pulluvan Pāṭṭu.”<br>Ref. (Related Items): Ethnomusicology Archive, UCLA (coll. 198609_NA84): Bake Restudy Notes, p. 55, Jairazbhoy Diary, p. 98, Data Sheets, p. 205
Date:
April 2, 1984
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Sarpam Thullal Pulluvan Serpent Ritual - L. S. Rajagopalan holds the vayannam of a Pulluvan kudam, Peramangalam (India), 1984

Mannān Velayudhan shows the two pieces that compose his naṇduni, at the home of Chummar Choondal, Chettupuzha (India), 1984

Description:
Mannān Velayudhan with his naṇduni, a two-string chordophone made of jackfruit wood. The location is the verandah of the home of the folklorist Chummar Choondal. Velayudhan shows that the naṇduni chordophone is made from two pieces fitted together. The instrument is conceived as the body of the Goddess. The upper notched bridge arayanam (“that which stops the sound”) and five raised frets are integral to the same thick piece of wood as the rest of the instrument. The scroll is called muti (head), two pegs are called cevi (ears), muti (face), karuttu (head), vayaru (stomach), the sides are called ara (buttocks) and the adjustable lower bridge pitham (throne). The Mannan people are an Ādivāsī indigenous community scheduled tribe (ST) living in the Idukki District in Kerala.<br>Ref: Choondal, Chummar, Mannan (Malayalam) Kozhikode: Poorna Publications, 1979.<br>Ref: Guillebaud, Christine. Le Chant des Serpents: Musiciens Itinerants du Kerala. Paris: CNRS. 2008. p. 182-185.<br>Ref. (Related Items): Ethnomusicology Archive, UCLA (coll. 198609_NA84): Bake Restudy Notes, p. 58, Jairazbhoy Diary, p. 104, Data Sheets, p. 210-214
Date:
April 3, 1984
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Mannān Velayudhan shows the two pieces that compose his naṇduni, at the home of Chummar Choondal, Chettupuzha (India), 1984

Gīgīpada singers Ramachandra Ramappa Dhavale, Yerappa Basavappa Sutagaji and Basappa Gagappa Talwar, Bailhongal (India), 1984

Description:
Gīgīpada (Gigipada, Gīgī Pada) singers of the Holeya community (left to right): Yerappa Basavappa Sutagaji, of Kalma Galli (voice and taal or jhāñjh); Ramachandra Ramappa Dhavale, of Tigadi Galli (voice and daf); and Basappa Gagappa Talwar, of Talwar Galli (voice and tuṇtuṇe). Gigipada singers performed Kannada songs, created by Hulkund Basappa, Purandara Dasa, and Hosur Somappa, at festivals. They sang mystical songs, auspicious songs, and modern songs on sanitation and cleanliness of body and mind.<br>Ref. (Related Items): Ethnomusicology Archive, UCLA (coll. 198609_NA84): Bake Restudy Notes, p. 6, Jairazbhoy Diary, p. 25, Data Sheets, p. 43-45
Date:
February 21, 1984
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Gīgīpada singers Ramachandra Ramappa Dhavale, Yerappa Basavappa Sutagaji and Basappa Gagappa Talwar, Bailhongal (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 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; the actor on the right wears a painted headdress of 2 orbs stacked stop a base. Performed by V. P. Paul and party.<br>Ref: Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy, Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Bake Restudy 1984 (2008), “Onavillu in simulated context” @ 52:43- 55:20. Original raw footage.<br>Ref. (Related Items): Ethnomusicology Archive, UCLA (coll. 198609_NA84): Bake Restudy Notes, p. 63, Jairazbhoy Diary, p. 107, Data Sheets, p. 229-230
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.<br>Ref: Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy, Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Bake Restudy 1984 (2008), “Onavillu in simulated context” @ 52:43- 55:20. Original raw footage.<br>Ref. (Related Items): Ethnomusicology Archive, UCLA (coll. 198609_NA84): Bake Restudy Notes, p. 63, Jairazbhoy Diary, p. 107, Data Sheets, p. 229-230
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

D. Balakrishna and his father, Mysore Doreswami Iyyengar, Bangalore (India), 1984

Description:
D. Balakrishna and his father, Mysore Doreswami Iyyengar (Vi. Doresvāmi Ayyaṅgār), play a vīṇā duet at home, located at 51, 4th Main Road.<br>Ref. (Related Items): Ethnomusicology Archive, UCLA (coll. 198609_NA84):Bake Restudy Notes, p. 17, Jairazbhoy Diary, p. 44, Data Sheets, p. 64-70
Date:
March 1, 1984
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
D. Balakrishna and his father, Mysore Doreswami Iyyengar, Bangalore (India), 1984