Genre: black-and-white negatives and black-and-white photographs - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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

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:: Placing the face (tabli) on the gourd, with glue to hold edges together, in the making of sitar or taṃbūrā at the workshop of Vilayat Hussain Brothers.
Date:: December 19, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Tying the face (tabli) to the gourd to keep it in place as the glue sets in the making of sitar or taṃbūrā at the workshop of Vilayat Hussain Brothers.
Date:: December 19, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Tying the face (tabli) to the gourd to keep it in place as the glue to sets in the making of sitar or taṃbūrā at the workshop of Vilayat Hussain Brothers.
Date:: December 19, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: The stem (dandi) and the gourd (tumba) are joined in the making of a sitar or taṃbūrā at the workshop of Vilayat Hussain Brothers.
Date:: December 19, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Sanding in preparation for the attaching of decorative celluloid strips in the making of a sitar or taṃbūrā at the workshop of Vilayat Hussain Brothers.
Date:: December 19, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Joining the two halves of the stem (dandi) in the making of a sitar or taṃbūrā at the workshop of Vilayat Hussain Brothers.
Date:: December 19, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Instrument maker hollowing of the stem (dandi) in making a sitar or taṃbūrā at the workshop of Vilayat Hussain Brothers.
Date:: December 19, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Musician with a halgī, a shallow frame drum, played with two sticks. This view, of the underneath of the drum, shows the attachment of the leather drumhead to the frame, using a fitted ring.
Date:: December 16, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

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