Subject: Membranophones / Collection: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Two kettle drums used by the Bagata (Bhagatā) people (?), from Paderu, near Chintapalli, Vishakha Patnam district. 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

Description:: After listening to the A. A. Bake 1938 recording (Tefi 27.6), identified as a Parayan Thullal genre dance drama song from “Pulundhi Moksham” written by Kunjan Nambiar about an Ādivāsī couple sung by two singers, thullal musicians perform the same song for the field researchers to record on PCM. Right, seated: Thankappan Nair, lead singer. Center, standing: uḍukku variable tension hourglass drum player. Second singer using book to sing lyrics. Center: B. C. Balachandar, thullal dancer. Location: Ayamkudy village, Kottayam District, Kerala.<br>Ref. (Related Items): Ethnomusicology Archive, UCLA (coll. 198609_NA84): Bake Restudy Notes, p. 45, Jairazbhoy Diary, p. 84, Data Sheets, p. 187-188
Date:: March 27, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Performed by Panai Kumaran group of the Pulayar community. This ceremony is a puja to introduce the velikkala, a ritual to help a woman conceive. The image shows a seated musician playing a maddaḷam drum using a stick to strike it as a woman sings.<br>Ref. (Related Items): Ethnomusicology Archive, UCLA (coll. 198609_NA84): Bake Restudy Notes, p. 66, Jairazbhoy Diary, p. 110, Data Sheets, p. 244-245
Date:: April 8, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Dhol-Lezim (Lejim) mandal dance troupe (Ram Mandir Gawli: Ram Temple Milkmen) perform a baithak (seated) dance. Percussionists stand and a play tāsa shallow bowl drum (left) and a large ḍhol (center) while the dancers lie on their backs in two lines and play jhāñjh bronze cymbals, and lezim sticks with jingling cymbals loosely attached. The man closest to the drummers in the left line leads 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

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

Description:: Nāl, a Maharashtrian double-headed drum, on a stool in the house 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:: Conical kettle drums. The larger left hand drum is played with a curving stick, which applies pressure to the drumhead, varying its pitch. The smaller right hand drum is played with a straight stick. These drums are usually played by devotees during rituals to the goddess Mahalaxmi. The drums are tied together and around the waist of the player for ease of access.
Date:: October 4, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Conical kettle drums. The larger left hand drum is played with a curving stick, which applies pressure to the drumhead, varying its pitch. The smaller right hand drum is played with a straight stick. The drums are usually played by devotees during rituals to the goddess Mahalaxmi. The drums are tied together and around the waist of the player for ease of access.
Date:: October 4, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: View of sixteen membranophones (avanaddha - a Sanskrit term referring to drums, in general) including eleven frame drums: daf; tep; kañjirā, et al; one pellet drum ḍamaru; and one pot drum with drumhead. 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:: Nāl, a Maharashtrian double-headed drum, on a stool in the house of L. N. Garg.
Date:: October 8, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

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