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Yacoob Rajabally with two reporters, Kolhapur (?), (India), 1963

Description:: Group portrait with Yacoob Rajabally (aka Yacoob Qawwal and Yacoob Premragi), right, and two reporters.
Date:: December 16, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Wandering magician plays a pūngī, Lonāvale (India), 1963

Description:: Snake charmer (Mohammed Ali Jaffar Ali or Sardar Khan) plays pūngī free reed mouth organ made of gourd and two bamboo tubes.
Date:: October 18, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Wandering magician plays a pūngī, Lonāvale (India), 1963

Description:: Magician (Mohammed Ali Jaffar Ali or Sardar Khan) plays pūngī free reed mouth organ made of gourd and two bamboo tubes.
Date:: October 18, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Wandering magician playing a pūngī, Lonāvale (India), 1963

Description:: Snake charmer (Mohammed Ali Jaffar Ali or Sardar Khan) plays pūngī mouth organ made of gourd and two bamboo tubes with finger holes.
Date:: October 18, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Wandering magician, Lonāvale (India), 1963

Description:: Two men hold a rope twisted around the waist of a magician (Mohammed Ali Jaffar Ali or Sardar Khan).
Date:: October 18, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Wadekar House, contemporary home possibly designed by architect Suryakant Patel, Lonāvale (India), 1963

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

Volkswagen van of Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy, parked in city square, Vadodara (India), 1963

Description:: Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy, parked in a city square amidst traffic of pedestrians, cars, taxis, truck, and single and double-decker BEST busses (Bombay Electric Supply and Tramways). Possibly near the entrance of MG College.
Date:: 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Volkswagen van of Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy during a field recording trip, Mumbai (India), 1963-1964

Description:: Front of the Volkswagen van.
Date:: 1963-1964
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Jairazbhoy, Nazir Ali, 1927-2009
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Volkswagen van of Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy during a field recording trip, Mumbai (India), 1963-1964

Description:: Front of the Volkswagen van.
Date:: 1963-1964
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Jairazbhoy, Nazir Ali, 1927-2009
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Volkswagen van of Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy during a field recording trip, Mumbai (India), 1963-1964

Description:: Headlight of the Volkswagen van.
Date:: 1963-1964
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Vivek Jairazbhoy and Humay Jairazbhoy as young boys, Lonāvale (?) (India), 1963

Description:: Vivek Jairazbhoy and Humay Jairazbhoy, sons of Amir Ali Jairazbhoy and Rafique Ali Jairazbhoy (nephews of Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy).
Date:: October 19, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Vivek Jairazbhoy and Humay Jairazbhoy as young boys, Lonāvale (?) (India), 1963

Description:: Vivek Jairazbhoy and Humay Jairazbhoy, sons of Amir Ali Jairazbhoy and Rafique Ali Jairazbhoy (nephews of Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy).
Date:: October 19, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Vivek Jairazbhoy and Humay Jairazbhoy as young boys, Lonāvale (?) (India), 1963

Description:: Vivek Jairazbhoy and Humay Jairazbhoy, sons of Amir Ali Jairazbhoy and Rafique Ali Jairazbhoy (nephews of Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy).
Date:: October 19, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Vilayat Hussain Brothers show completed taṃbūrās at the shop of Abdul Karim, Ismail Saheb, Miraj (India), 1963

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

View of the port from shipboard, Karachi (Pakistan), 1963

Description:: View of the Karachi port from shipboard towards harbor buildings, a landing pier, the Big Ben hilltop clock tower, and a BP (British Petroleum?) oil rig.
Date:: September 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

View of the port from shipboard, Karachi (Pakistan), 1963

Description:: View of Karachi from shipboard en route from Bombay to Karachi before 27th September. Harbor view of yachts, fishing boats, shore buildings, and a mountain ridge (description from the Blue Notebook, Spool 3).
Date:: September 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

View of Mumbai and Arabian Sea from tall balcony, Mumbai (India), 1963

Date:: 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Jairazbhoy, Nazir Ali, 1927-2009
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

View of a bay in the Arabian Sea from Nariman Point (?) on a misty day, Mumbai (India), 1963

Date:: 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Jairazbhoy, Nazir Ali, 1927-2009
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

View of a bay in Arabian Sea from Nariman Point (?), Mumbai (India), 1963

Description:: The Rajabai Tower, Fort area, is on the right.
Date:: 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Jairazbhoy, Nazir Ali, 1927-2009
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

View of a bay in Arabian Sea from Nariman Point (?), Mumbai (India), 1963

Date:: 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Jairazbhoy, Nazir Ali, 1927-2009
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

View from Rafique Ali Jairazbhoy's flat, Mumbai (India), 1963

Description:: View from the flat of Rafique Ali Jairazbhoy of Mumbai over buildings to the ocean. Cars are parked on an above-ground driveway.
Date:: 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Jairazbhoy, Nazir Ali, 1927-2009
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

View from Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy's Volkswagen van, (India), 1963

Description:: View of a sago palm (?) in a field from the Volkswagen van window. The van is en route from Pune to Hyderabad, or en route from Dilkush Government Guesthouse, Hyderabad, to Banjara village.
Date:: December 20, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

View from a ship entering the port, Karachi (Pakistan), 1963

Description:: View from ship entering Karachi harbor. Small boats come to meet the ship; sailors are possibly selling items.
Date:: September 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Vicitrā vīṇā, possession of R. S. Mayekar, Mumbai (India), 1963

Description:: Vicitrā vīṇā, with two tumbas (gourd resonators) and five pegs for strings (strings and frets not present). Possession of R. S. Mayekar.
Date:: December 11, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Vasant Yadev, Krishna I. Sangpāl, and M. Shaluke, Miraj (India), 1963

Description:: Seated on the porch in front of the shop of Abdul Karim Ismail Saheb, musicians from the left: Vasant Yadav, with a dimdi (small frame membranophone); Krishna I. Sangpāl, voice, ektara (two stringed drone lute) and dipri/kartāl (wooden clappers); and M. Shaluke with jhāñjh (small hand cymbals). Performers of Marathi abhang and bhakti git, Hindi bhajan by Kabir Das.
Date:: December 19, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Jairazbhoy, Nazir Ali, 1927-2009
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Vasant Yadev, Krishna I. Sangpāl, and M. Shaluke, Miraj (India), 1963

Description:: Seated on the porch in front of the shop of Abdul Karim Ismail Saheb, musicians from the left: Vasant Yadav, with a dimdi (small frame membranophone); Krishna I. Sangpāl, voice, ektara (two stringed drone lute) and dipri/kartāl (wooden clappers); and M. Shaluke with jhāñjh (small hand cymbals). Performers of Marathi abhang and bhakti git, Hindi bhajan by Kabir Das.
Date:: December 19, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Various tribal instruments, Hyderabad (India), 1963

Description:: Instruments including an animal horn aerophone trumpet, idiophones: rattles, rattle rings, hand cymbals, and a bronze bell. 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

Two wandering musicians, Lonāvale (India), 1963

Description:: Magician smiles (Mohammed Ali Jaffar Ali or Sardar Khan), holds up basket top and phallus-like object, with a companion musician behind him. A microphone in the left foreground indicate that the session was recorded.
Date:: October 18, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Two wandering magicians, Lonāvale (India), 1963

Description:: Magician (Mohammed Ali Jaffar Ali or Sardar Khan) with basket and 2 white live pigeons beside a Neuman reel-to-reel tape recorder and microphone.
Date:: October 18, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Two wandering magicians, Lonāvale (India), 1963

Description:: Magician (Mohammed Ali Jaffar Ali or Sardar Khan) with a basket and a live white pigeon, with a companion musician behind him. A Nagra reel-to-reel tape recorder is in the foreground.
Date:: October 18, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Two wandering magicians, Lonāvale (India), 1963

Description:: Two wandering magicians, Mohammed Ali Jaffar Ali and Sardar Khan, squat on the ground, with a baton, metal rings, a metal orb and other items.
Date:: October 18, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Two rāmsāgars and pair of kartāl, possession of R. S. Mayekar, Mumbai (India), 1963

Description:: One pair of kartāl wooden shakers with metal disks, meant to be held in one hand. A small rāmsāgar longneck lute with gourd resonator, and large rāmsāgar.
Date:: December 11, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Two kettle drums of the Bagata people, Hyderabad (India), 1963

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

Two kettle drums of the Bagata people, Hyderabad (India), 1963

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

Two incomplete rabābs, possession of R. S. Mayekar, Mumbai (India), 1963

Date:: November 12, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Two-headed clay drum (madiala ?), of the Bagata people, Hyderabad (India), 1963

Description:: Two-headed clay drum, a vase-type pot drum, with paste on both sides (madiala?). An instrument of the Bagata (Bhagatā) people and other tribes in Āraku Valley. “Paste” refers to weighted paste applied on both drumheads. The image shows the larger head, usually played by the left hand. 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

Two-headed clay drum (madiala ?), of the Bagata people, Hyderabad (India), 1963

Description:: Two-headed clay drum, a vase-type pot drum, with paste on both sides (madiala?). An instrument of the Bagata (Bhagatā) people and other tribes in Āraku Valley. “Paste” refers to weighted paste applied on both drumheads. The image shows the smaller head, usually played by the right hand. 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

Two dilrubā, possession of R. S. Mayekar, Mumbai (India), 1963

Description:: An ordinary design dilrubā, L 35 ½". Old design dilruba, gold painted, L 39”. With bows.
Date:: November 12, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Tipanne Sadasiva with a shehnai, Miraj (India) 1963

Description:: Tipanne Sadasiva, a classical musician, with a shehnai. A cloth is stuffed into the bell. A man playing a surpeṭī (free reed aerophone used for drone) accompanies him. 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

Tipanne Sadasiva (shehnai), Śhivate Mule (tablā), and another musician (surpeṭī), Miraj (India) 1963

Description:: Classical musicians perform at the shop of Abdul Karim Ismail Saheb. A cloth is stuffed into the bell of the shehnai. A man playing a surpeṭī (free reed aerophone used for drone) accompanies.
Date:: December 19, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Tipanne Sadasiva (shehnai), Śhivate Mule (tablā), and another musician (surpeṭī), Miraj (India) 1963

Date:: December 19, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Three gourds for a sitar or taṃbūrā at Vilayat Hussain brothers, Miraj (India), 1963

Description:: At the workshop of Vilayat Hussain Brothers, instrument makers, and three gourds (tumba) in various stages of preparation for making a sitar or taṃbūrā.
Date:: December 19, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Tamasha performance - Two nagāṙā players at a theater, Kolhapur (India), 1963

Description:: Two images of nagāṙā players at a theater before a tamasha performance: a naraga player (left) and D. M. Bhonsle playing “cangara” (nagāṙā?).” The diary of Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy states “Recorded shehnai party. Not very good.”
Date:: December 16, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Tamasha performance - Ramachandra Babaji Salukhe (shehnai) with a surpeṭī musician, Kolhapur (India), 1963

Description:: Two images: Left: Ramchandra Babaji Salukhe playing shehnai, with a shruti musician. Right: two women during a tamasha performance (?)
Date:: December 16, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Tamasha performance - Ramachandra Babaji Salukhe (shehnai) with a surpeṭī musician, and D. M. Bhonsle ("congara"), Kolhapur (India), 1963

Description:: Two images. Left: Ramchandra Babaji Salukhe playing shehnai, with a shruti musician. Right: D. M. Bhonsle playing a “cangara” (nagāṙā?). They are performing prior to a tamasha performance. The diary of Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy states “Recorded shehnai party. Not very good.”
Date:: December 16, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Tamasha performance: D. M. Bhonsle (congara) (left), musician with drum, Kolhapur (India), 1963

Description:: Two images. Left: D. M. Bhonsle with a "congara" (nagāṙā?). Right: a man heats a drumhead over a fire to tighten the skin.
Date:: December 16, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Tamasha party, Kolhapur (India), 1963

Description:: Two images. Left: tamasha women sing. A tablā and harmonium are partly visible. Right: a tamasha woman performs namaskaram resting on her knees.
Date:: December 16, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Tamasha party, Kolhapur (India), 1963

Description:: A tamasha woman dances. A man plays a triangle.
Date:: December 16, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Tamasha party, Kolhapur (India), 1963

Description:: Two images of tamasha dancers on stage. Left: a dancer and a man playing a triangle. Right: 2 dancers and a microphone.
Date:: December 16, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Tamasha party, Kolhapur (India), 1963

Description:: Two images. Left: Left: a man sings; two tamasha women dance and sing. Right: A tamasha woman dances and sings, man sings. A tablā and harmonium are partly visible.
Date:: December 16, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Tamasha party, Kolhapur (India), 1963

Description:: Two images. Left: Left: a man sings; two tamasha women dance and sing. Right: A tamasha woman dances and sings, man sings. A tablā and harmonium are partly visible.
Date:: December 16, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Tamasha party, Kolhapur (India), 1963

Description:: Two images. Left: a tamasha woman sings and gestures. A man in white is beside her. A tablā is partly visible.
Date:: December 16, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Tamasha party, Kolhapur (India), 1963

Description:: Dark image with tamasha dancers.
Date:: December 16, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Taṃbūrā (two), possession of R. S. Mayekar, Mumbai (India), 1963

Date:: November 12, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Taṃbūrā, in the possession of R. S. Mayekar, Mumbai (India), 1963

Description:: Two different styles of taṃbūrā. Wooden type from Pandharpur (40 ½"). Tumba type (42 ½”).
Date:: November 12, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Taṃbūrā, in the possession of R. S. Mayekar, Mumbai (India), 1963

Description:: Two different styles of aṃbūrā. Wooden type from Pandharpur (40 ½"). Tumba type (42 ½”).
Date:: November 12, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Taṃbūrā, in the possession of R. S. Mayekar, Mumbai (India), 1963

Description:: Madrasi taṃbūrā (49 ½”). Pandharpuri taṃbūrā (38").
Date:: November 12, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Taṃbūrā, in the possession of R. S. Mayekar, Mumbai (India), 1963

Description:: Madrasi taṃbūrā (49 ½”). Pandharpuri taṃbūrā (38").
Date:: November 12, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Tablā pair, dayan and bayan, with a tuning hammer, Vadodara (India), 1963

Description:: Tablā pair: dayan (“right” hand drum, higher pitched) and bayan (“left” hand drum, lower pitched, variable tension membranophone) with a tuning hammer. Purchased from Krishnarao Kumthekar, tablā professional and Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy's tablā teacher.
Date:: October 22, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Sulleḍi (flute), small horn (?), instruments of the Rāj Gond people, Hyderabad (India), 1963

Description:: 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

Street procession of shehnai musicians, Vadodara (India), 1963

Description:: Professional shehnai group.
Date:: November 5, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Sūrbahār, possession of R. S. Mayekar, Mumbai (India), 1963

Date:: November 12, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Sāraṅgī, possession of R. S. Mayekar, Mumbai (India), 1963

Description:: Three sāraṅgī bowed lutes (40”, 28” & 25”), with many sympathetic strings. Two bows.
Date:: December 11, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Sāraṅgī, possession of R. S. Mayekar, Mumbai (India), 1963

Description:: Three sāraṅgī bowed lutes (40”, 28” & 25”), with many sympathetic strings. Two bows.
Date:: December 11, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Sāraṅgī, Mumbai (India), 1963

Description:: Sāraṅgī with a bow and sympathetic string tuning peg turner purchased by Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy from R. S. Mayekar.
Date:: 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Jairazbhoy, Nazir Ali, 1927-2009
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Sāraṅgī, Mumbai (India), 1963

Description:: Sāraṅgī with a bow and sympathetic string tuning peg turner purchased by Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy from R. S. Mayekar.
Date:: 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Jairazbhoy, Nazir Ali, 1927-2009
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

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

S. K. Khadke plays a ḍholki, Miraj (India), 1963

Description:: S. K. Khadke plays ḍholki, a small cylindrical membranophone, at 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

S. K. Khadke, Babu Sherbande, and D. G. Kadam, Miraj (India), 1963

Description:: A group of musicians perform Marathi folk songs, Krishna bhajan. S. K. Khadke plays ḍholki (a small cylindrical membranophone). Singer Babu Sherbande plays a daf (a shallow membranophone with metal tuning pegs). D. G. Kadam plays a tuṇtuṇe (a plucked monochord with a carved wooden horsehead peg and a wooden cylinder resonator, painted like the national flag of India: horizontal stripes in three colors, saffron, white, and green, with charkha spinning wheel in the center). 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

S. K. Khadke, Babu Sherbande, and D. G. Kadam, Miraj (India), 1963

Description:: A group of musicians perform Marathi folk songs, Krishna bhajan. S. K. Khadke plays ḍholki (a small cylindrical membranophone). Singer Babu Sherbande plays a daf (a shallow membranophone with metal tuning pegs). D. G. Kadam plays a tuṇtuṇe (a plucked monochord with a carved wooden horsehead peg and a wooden cylinder resonator, painted like the national flag of India: horizontal stripes in three colors, saffron, white, and green, with charkha spinning wheel in the center). 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

Sitārā of Ishvaramma Pocānā, Jangama folk musician, Hyderabad (India), 1963

Description:: Sitārā (played by Ishvaramma Pocānā) used by Jangama caste folk musicians. The sitārā is a 3-stringed wooden lute. Its unusually large square scroll is intricately carved in a stylized representation of a peacock unfurling its tail feathers.
Date:: December 22, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Shell instruments of the Konda-Reddi people, Hyderabad (India), 1963

Description:: Ghunghru type, Gillakalu (shell rattle ?), used by the Konda-Reddi (Hill Reddi) people, Khammam district. Made of cowrie shells, cypraeoidea, each pierced with one hole and threaded together with others in clusters of 6 or 7 shells. One set (left) is attached to a wooden handle to shake by the hand; the other is attached to a mirror and tied to a dancer’s ankle, similar to the ghunghru of kathak classical dance. 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

Shell instruments of the Konda-Reddi people, Hyderabad (India), 1963

Description:: Ghunghru type, Gillakalu (shell rattle ?), used by the Konda-Reddi (Hill Reddi) people, Khammam district. Made of cowrie shells, cypraeoidea, each pierced with one hole and threaded together with others in clusters of 6 or 7 shells. One set (L) is attached to a wooden handle to shake by the hand; the other is attached to a mirror and tied to a dancer’s ankle, similar to the ghunghru of kathak classical dance. 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

Shehnai, sur, and two sundaris in the possession of Balkrishna Maruti Rao Shirke, Vadodara (India), 1963

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

Shehnai, sur, and two sundaris in the possession of Balkrishna Maruti Rao Shirke, Vadodara (India), 1963

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

Shamrao Banshode Surdas with a harmonium, Mumbai (India), 1963

Description:: Shamrao Banshode Surdas, a blind singer, seated with a closed harmonium. An unidentified woman is on the right. They are at a construction site.
Date:: October 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Shamrao Banshode Surdas with a harmonium, Mumbai (India), 1963

Description:: Shamrao Banshode Surdas, a blind singer, seated with a harmonium. An unidentified woman is on the right.
Date:: October 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Shamrao Banshode Surdas with a harmonium, Mumbai (India), 1963

Description:: Shamrao Banshode Surdas, a blind singer, seated with a harmonium. An unidentified woman is on the right.
Date:: October 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

S. B. Jadav holding a tuṇtuṇe, Miraj (India), 1963

Description:: S. B. Jadav plays a tuṇtuṇe (a plucked monochord) with a horsehead peg and wooden cylindrical resonator. His left thumbnail is sharpened to a point to pluck the string. Metal bands decorate the neck of the instrument. 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

S. B. Jadav, B. R. Jadav, D. G. Kadam, and S. K. Khadke, Miraj (India), 1963

Description:: S. B. Jadav plays a tuṇtuṇe (a plucked monochord) with a carved wooden horse head peg and a painted wooden cylinder resonator; B. R. Jadav plays manjira (small bronze hand cymbals); D. G. Kadam holds a daf (a shallow membranophone) with metal tuning pegs; and S. K. Khadke plays a ḍholki (a small cylindrical membranophone). 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

Sarasvatī vīṇā, Tanjore style, possession of R. S. Mayekar, Mumbai (India), 1963

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

Sarasvatī vīṇā, Tanjore style, possession of R. S. Mayekar, Mumbai (India), 1963

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

Sarasvatī vīṇā, Tanjore style, in the possession of R. S. Mayekar, Mumbai (India), 1963

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

Rudra vīṇā, possession of R. S. Mayekar, Mumbai (India), 1963

Description:: Later purchased by Felix van Lamsweerde; housed in the Tropical Museum, Amsterdam.
Date:: December 11, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Rudra vīṇā, possession of R. S. Mayekar, Mumbai (India), 1963

Description:: Rudra vīṇā, tube zither with 22 fixed frets and 5 pegs for playing strings, and 1 peg for chikari rhythm/drone strings. Two large tumbas (gourd resonators). Possession of R. S. Mayekar. Later purchased by Felix van Lamsweerde; now in the Tropical Museum, Amsterdam.
Date:: December 11, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Rudra vīṇā, Mumbai (India), 1963

Description:: Rudra vīṇā, tube zither. 22 fixed frets. 5 pegs for playing strings, 1 peg for chikari rhythm/drone strings. Two large tumbas (gourd resonators). Possession of R. S. Mayekar. Later purchased by Felix van Lamsweerde; now in Tropical Museum, Amsterdam.
Date:: December 11, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Roman Catholic men and boys stand outside a chapel, Kottagūdem (India), 1963

Description:: Roman Catholic men and boys stand outside an open-air chapel with a thatched roof after singing Telugu Christmas songs. A musician in a plaid shirt holds a harmonium on his shoulder (left), and a father holds a hymnal (center). A ḍholak or mṛdaṅgam player holds his instrument (right).
Date:: 1963-1964
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Jairazbhoy, Nazir Ali, 1927-2009
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Religious Hindu procession, Vadodara vicinity (India), 1963

Description:: Religious Hindu procession near Vadodara, led by the bhajana party of group devotional singers en route from Bombay to Vadodara, Gujarat.
Date:: October 26, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Ravanhatta and Esraj, possession of R. S. Mayekar, Mumbai (?) (India), 1963

Description:: Ravanhatta (17”) (rajasthani bowed lute, with bow, bells attached) and Esrāj (38.5”) (Punjabi/Sikh bowed lute) with a bow.
Date:: December 11, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Patricia O’Shea Jairazbhoy standing beside a Volkswagen van, Mumbai (India), 1963-1964

Description:: Patricia O’Shea Jairazbhoy at a passenger door of the Volkswagen van on Vir Nariman Road in Churchgate with Merchants’ Chambers at corner.
Date:: 1963-1964
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Jairazbhoy, Nazir Ali, 1927-2009
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts