Dancer B. C. Balachandar performs an episode from the Ottan Thullal solo dance drama Kalyana Sougandhikam (“Auspicious Fragrant Lily”). Musicians are behind him: a musician playing a mṛdaṅgam, a barrel shaped double-headed membranophone (seated, left), a singer and shruti peti musician (seated, center), a singer playing kai mani/jālra / taḷām cymbals (seated, right), a musician with an uḍukku variable tension hourglass drum (standing, right). Village children begin to appear to watch. Blurry shot due to camera movement.<br>Ref. (Related Items): Ethnomusicology Archive, UCLA (coll. 198609_NA84): Bake Restudy Notes, p. 45, Jairazbhoy Diary, p. 84, Data Sheets, p. 187-188
Dancer B. C. Balachandar performs an episode from the Ottan Thullal solo dance drama Kalyana Sougandhikam (“Auspicious Fragrant Lily”). Musicians are behind him: a musician playing a mṛdaṅgam, a barrel shaped double-headed membranophone (seated, left), a singer and shruti peti musician (seated, center), a singer playing kai mani/jālra / taḷām cymbals (seated, right), a musician with an uḍukku variable tension hourglass drum (standing, right). Village children begin to appear to watch. Blurry shot due to camera movement.<br>Ref. (Related Items): Ethnomusicology Archive, UCLA (coll. 198609_NA84): Bake Restudy Notes, p. 44-45, Jairazbhoy Diary, p. 84, Data Sheets, p. 187-188
Dancer B. C. Balachandar performs an episode from the Ottan Thullal solo dance drama Kalyana Sougandhikam (“Auspicious Fragrant Lily”). Musicians are behind him: a musician playing a mṛdaṅgam, a barrel shaped double-headed membranophone (seated, left), a singer and shruti peti musician (seated, center), a singer playing kai mani/jālra / taḷām cymbals (seated, right), a musician with an uḍukku variable tension hourglass drum (standing, right). Village children begin to appear to watch. Blurry shot due to camera movement.<br>Ref. (Related Items): Ethnomusicology Archive, UCLA (coll. 198609_NA84): Bake Restudy Notes, p. 45, Jairazbhoy Diary, p. 84, Data Sheets, p. 187-188
Dancer B. C. Balachandar performs an episode from the Ottan Thullal solo dance drama Kalyana Sougandhikam (“Auspicious Fragrant Lily”).Musicians are behind him: a musician playing a mṛdaṅgam, a barrel shaped double-headed membranophone (seated, left), a singer and shruti peti musician (seated, center), a singer playing kai mani/jālra / taḷām cymbals (seated, right), a musician with an uḍukku variable tension hourglass drum (standing, right). Village children begin to appear to watch. Blurry shot due to camera movement.<br>Ref. (Related Items): Ethnomusicology Archive, UCLA (coll. 198609_NA84): Bake Restudy Notes, p. 45, Jairazbhoy Diary, p. 84, Data Sheets, p. 187-188
Mannan men dance beside Perumal (Mannan man), who dances wearing a floral garland, dressed in a pink floral half-sari, a white choli, an orange shrug, and a pink headband with a flower in the center. Behind him, a Mannan man bends forward and plays a maddaḷam, a barrel-shaped membranophone. The event is a festival of the Mannan Ādivāsī people with dance and music. The festival was held in honor of the goddess Madurai Minatci, and/or Kannaki and Kovalan (the heroine and hero of the Silappadikaram, a semi-legendary Hindu-Jain Tamil epic poem). The village of Mannankudi is near Kumili, which is 5 km from Thekkady.<br>Ref. (Related Items): Ethnomusicology Archive, UCLA (coll. 198609_NA84): Bake Restudy Notes, p. 38, Jairazbhoy Diary, p. 77, Data Sheets, p. 161-166
A dresser adjusts the costume of dancer B. C. Balachandar for his performance of Kalyana Sougandhikam (“Auspicious Fragrant Lily”), an Ottan Thullal solo dance drama. It is similar to the “Rukmini Swayamvaram” Ottan Thullal recorded by A. A. Bake (Tefi 27.5) in Kottayam on 22 March 1938.<br>Ref. (Related Items): Ethnomusicology Archive, UCLA (coll. 198609_NA84): Bake Restudy Notes, p. 45, Jairazbhoy Diary, p. 84, Data Sheets, p. 187-188
A dresser finishes the costume of Ottan Thullal dancer B. C. Balachandar for his performance of Kalyana Sougandhikam (“Auspicious Fragrant Lily”), a solo dance drama, recorded by A. A. Bake (Tefi 27.5) in Kottayam on 22 March 1938.<br>Ref. (Related Items): Ethnomusicology Archive, UCLA (coll. 198609_NA84): Bake Restudy Notes, p. 45, Jairazbhoy Diary, p. 84, Data Sheets, p. 187-188
A Urali man and his family with wife and children stand in front of their thatched and insulated home. Two of the women, Rehmani and Rajamma sang a Urali lullaby and “Tindodi,” a mother’s song about her adolescent daughter with brother-in-law Prasad’s help. The location is the Vancivayal Koledi Colony, in the vicinity of Vandiperiyar.<br>Ref. (Related Items): Ethnomusicology Archive, UCLA (coll. 198609_NA84): Bake Restudy Notes, p. 39 (translation), Jairazbhoy Diary, p. 78, Data Sheets, p. 173-174
