Subject: Chordophones / Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Ethnomusicology Archive - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Kekrī (bowed lute) and kujja (bow with bells), instruments of Rāj Gond people in Adilabad. Possession of 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

Description:: Kekrī (bowed lute) and kujja (bow with bells), instruments of Rāj Gond people in Adilabad. Possession of 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

Description:: View of a nagāṙā type drum (naqqāra, naqareh, nagada) possibly in the Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum in Pune. This is an open display of a membranophone with a laced head of skin, conical shape and clay body, sitting on a hindoni balancing ring made of rattan. Rings are attached to side for carrying the instrument. The drum is installed on a stone pedestal. A Kodak 1000 film box is on the pedestal, perhaps the film used for the photo. Musical instruments visible behind the glass doors include aerophones and chordophones.
Date:: 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: View of a chordophone (tata - Sanskrit term) long-neck wooden lute with four strings, four tuning pegs, and reptile-skin scroll. The tata is placed on a museum floor to be photographed. Possibly in the Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum in Pune.
Date:: 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: View of two chordophones (tata - Sanskrit term) long-neck wooden lute with four strings, four tuning pegs, and reptile-skin scroll. Possibly in the Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum in Pune.
Date:: 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Gopī yantra in the possession of L. N. Garg.
Date:: October 8, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Sarasvatī vīṇā Tanjore. L 52”. Named for Saraswati, the Goddess of Knowledge and the Arts. It is carved from a single piece of wood. It has twenty-one bronze fret bars (mettu) attached to the fingerboard (danda) in a beeswax mounting. Five strings are attached. It is highly decorated with white inlays. It does not appear to have a sound hole (nada randhra) in the soundboard. An extra resonator (sarrokai) is attached beneath the face of the dragon (yali).
Date:: November 12, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Sarasvatī vīṇā Tanjore. L: 52. Named for Saraswati, the Goddess of Knowledge and the Arts. Bronze frets (mettu) are attached in a beeswax mounting. Five strings are attached. It is highly decorated with white inlays. It does not appear to have a sound hole (nada randhra).
Date:: November 12, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Mayūrī vīṇā. L 76", H: 49”. Harp with tube resonator. It is named for the peacock (mayur) and peacock feathers are attached to the neck and bow. The strings are perpendicular to the sounding board. Two tumba resonators of gourd or wood are attached to the tube resonator.
Date:: November 12, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Sarasvatī vīṇā Tanjore. L: 39”. Named for the Goddess of Knowledge and the Arts. View of the bridge kuthirai (“horse”) on face. The frets have not yet been attached to the fingerboard danda.
Date:: November 12, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

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