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Description:: Musicians in a Dhol-Lezim (Lejim) mandal dance troupe (Shri Ram Mandir Gowli: Ram Temple Milkmen) play a large ḍhol barrel membranophone and a tāsa shallow bowl drum played with cane sticks (chob). About 20 Gowli men encircle them playing pairs of jhāñjh bronze cymbals, and lezim rattles 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:: Musicians in a Dhol-Lezim (Lejim) mandal dance troupe (Shri Ram Mandir Gowli: Ram Temple Milkmen) play a large ḍhol barrel membranophone and a tāsa shallow bowl drum played with cane sticks (chob). About 20 Gowli men encircle them playing pairs of jhāñjh bronze cymbals, and lezim rattles 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:: Musicians in a Dhol-Lezim (Lejim) mandal dance troupe (Shri Ram Mandir Gowli: Ram Temple Milkmen) play a large ḍhol barrel membranophone, five pairs of jhāñjh bronze cymbals, lezim rattles with jingling cymbals loosely attached, and a tāsa shallow bowl drum played with cane sticks chob.
Date:: December 13, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Dhol-lezim mandal dance troupe musical instruments: Left: a lezim stick with jingling cymbals loosely attached, jhāñjh bronze cymbals with wooden handles; and a tāsa shallow bowl drum with screw type tuning pegs (R), played with cane sticks (chob) (L).
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 musical instruments: L and R: a lezim stick with jingling cymbals attached, jhāñjh bronze cymbals with wooden handles, and a tāsa shallow bowl drum with screw type tuning pegs (C), played with cane sticks (L).
Date:: December 13, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Group portrait at the entrance to a Devi temple. A Gajalakshmi painting is above entrance: two elephants showering Goddess Lakshmi, goddess of wealth. School children sit and walk in front of the temple, adult Gowli men stand; they are probably all from the milkmen community. One man reaches to the temple bell and rings it.
Date:: December 14, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: A monkey trainer squats with two monkeys on leashes. They are in front of the Volkswagen van of Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy, on Jairazbhoy Lane, Malabar Hill.
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

Description:: Inside the temple: altar with three arches to Ganesha, three deities, and Brahma with four faces. 1) Ganesha, 2) Lakshman, his brother Ramachandra (Lord Rama), and Rama’s wife Sita, 3) Brahma with four faces, carrying calf on his back.
Date:: December 14, 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 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:: Banjara women dancing and singing. Six women dance (a welcome song for marriage?) with raised arms, bedecked with white bangles. They wear large nose rings, toe rings, and elaborate necklaces. Their long cholīs (blouse) gāgrās (ankle-length full skirts) and oṛhnīs (shawl worn over head, one end tucked into waist) are decorated with needlework, coins, and mirror work. The headman, Gajā, plays a daf for their song. Other men had left for work in fields. Huts and a thatch-roof cowshed are visible in the background. The village is 17 miles from Hyderabad.
Date:: December 21, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

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