Genre: black-and-white negatives and black-and-white photographs / Location: Miraj (Sangli, Maharashtra, India) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: At the workshop of Vilayat Hussain Brothers, instrument makers, and two gourds (tumba) with neck-piece fitted, the second with decoration leaves added, for a sitar or taṃbūrā.
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:: Instrument maker hollowing of the stem (dandi) of a sitar of 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:: Men in turbans, one with a drum, hold reins of bull wearing bells. Crown of men, boys and girls watch. Felix van Lamsweerde can be seen, 2nd from left.
Date:: December 19, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Date:: December 18, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Abdul Karim Ismail Saheb cutting indentations into decorative celluloid strips in the making of a sitar or taṃbūrā. This is the first stage of the scrimshaw process in which scratches are made in the decorative strips, to be filled with pigment in the next stage. The location is the verandah of the workshop of Abdul Karim Ismail Saheb.
Date:: December 19, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Abdul Karim Ismail Sahib applying paint on the indented celluloid strip in the making of a sitar or taṃbūrā. This is the second stage of the scrimshaw process in which scratches are filled with pigment. Black coal dust is used for black color. The location is the verandah of the workshop of Abdul Karim Ismail Saheb.
Date:: December 19, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Indenting decorative celluloid strips in the making of a sitar or taṃbūrā. This is the first stage of the scrimshaw process in which scratches are made, to be filled with pigment in the next stage. Framed photos of ancestors, relatives, and ustāds hang from the top of the verandah wall at the workshop of Abdul Karim Ismail Saheb and Sons.
Date:: December 19, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Group portrait of two of the Vilayat Hussain Brothers with completed taṃbūrās, seated with family members. The location is the shop of Abdul Karim Ismail Saheb.
Date:: December 19, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Fixing decorative celluloid strips on a sitar or taṃbūrā. The location is the verandah of the Abdul Karim Ismail Saheb and Sons workshop.
Date:: December 19, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

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