Agasta Lingam Pillai, leader of a Villupāttu ensemble seated, at the left end of the villu (bow) instrument (also known as Villupattu, Villadichampaatu, and Villisai).
Agasta Lingam Pillai, leader of a Villupāttu ensemble seated, at the left end of the villu (bow) instrument (also known as Villupattu, Villadichampaatu, and Villisai).
Agasta Lingam Pillai, leader of a Villupāttu ensemble seated, at the left end of the villu (bow) instrument (also known as Villupattu, Villadichampaatu, and Villisai).
An Aiyanar temple guardian: Cement statue of god Aiyanar (goddess?) astride a rearing white horse (Kalki), placed on a high pedestal at the corner of a temple wall. His (?) consort or servant Puranai stands beneath the horse with other figures. The slide was taken en route between Madurai and Usilampatty.
An Aiyanar temple guardian: Cement statue of god Aiyanar (goddess?) astride a rearing white horse (Kalki), placed on a high pedestal at the corner of a temple wall. His (?) consort or servant Puranai stands beneath the horse with other figures. The slide was taken en route between Madurai and Usilampatty.
An Aiyanar temple guardian: Cement statue of god Aiyanar (goddess?) astride a rearing white horse (Kalki), placed on a high pedestal at the corner of a temple wall. His (?) consort or servant Puranai stands beneath the horse with other figures. A woman on the left statue crawls to the edge of the temple wall toward Aiyanar. The slide was taken en route between Madurai and Usilampatty.
View of a cement statue of woman astride rearing white horse, its hooves resting on the heads of two guards holding maces. A third, smaller figure behind them also holds a mace. Three figures stand under the belly of the horse: a male with two right arms, one in an abhaya mudra, and one holding a flame (?) aloft; a female with her left hand near her head; and a young girl with a long braid.
View looking down toward a statue of a rearing white horse, with a cowshed, haystack and green paddy fields visible in background. A bodhi tree with aerial branches and a man in a white turban are in the foreground. Three boys and an elderly man with walking stick walk up the slope toward the man in white turban.
View of a cement statue of the god Aiyanar, and the temple corner, from a high vantage point behind, with hanging aerial branches of bodhi tree in the foreground. A statue of a woman appears to crawl toward the edge of the temple wall toward Aiyanar.
View of a cement statue of woman astride a rearing white horse, the hooves resting on the heads of two guards holding maces. A third, smaller figure behind them also holds a mace. Three figures stand under the belly of the horse: a male with two right arms, one in an abhaya mudra, and one holding a flame (?) aloft; a female with her left hand near her head; and a young girl with a long braid.
View of a cement statue of a rearing white horse (Kalki ?) with its front hooves resting on the shoulders of a moustached, garlanded statue of female figure (Goddess Kali ?). The rider’s right arm is visible holding stick aloft in his hand. There is a lion statue and two Nandi bull statues at the base of the horse and figure. Two lion statues lie atop the white-and-red-striped walls surrounding the compound. Almost all of the statues are polychrome, with some black statues on lower level of compound. A tall black statue and stele is in front of compound. Paddy fields and a tree are visible in the background; there is a hammer-and-sickle (?) atop a pole. Sheaves of drying grass (?) are hanging from the tree. The numbers “19|3” are visible on a tall pole in front of compound.
Village Guardian (?): View of a cement statue of god Aiyanar (blue face, moustache) astride rearing white horse (Kalki ?). His two servants (?), female and male, stand beneath the horse. Statues of two black horses on the lower level of the area rimmed by stone wall.
Village Guardian (?): View of a cement statue of the god Aiyanar (blue face, moustache) astride a rearing white horse (Kalki?). His two servants (?), female and male, stand beneath the horse.
Village Guardian (?): View of a cement statue of god Aiyanar (blue face, moustache) astride a rearing white horse (Kalki?). His two consorts or servants, Puranai (white body, naked except for thighs), and Putkalai (yellow body), stand beneath the horse. The horse’s front hooves rest on the shoulders of the god Shiva, Aiyanar’s father, who is mounted sideways on his bull, Nandi. The group includes statues of a lion and another bull. There is a large tree above.
Aiyanar Village Guardian: Cement statue of the god Aiyanar astride a rearing white horse (Kalki?). His two consorts or servants Puranai (white body, naked except for thighs) and Putkalai (yellow body) stand beneath the horse. The horse’s front hooves rest on the shoulders of the god Shiva, and Aiyanar’s father, who is mounted sideways on his bull Nandi. In front are statues of a lion and another bull. Beneath the front of the horse is an alcove with a dark goddess and serpent. The photograph was taken en route between Madurai and Usilampatty.
Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy (ethnomusicologist), Amir Ali Jairazbhoy (architect), and Shereen Chaubey Jairazbhoy (painter). They are at “Shererock,” a building designed by Amir Ali Jairazbhoy, located at 17/2 Miller Road in Bangalore.
Overhead view of the Basavanneppa Band in a crowded street. The Basavanneppa Band includes bass drums (2), side drums (2), snare drums (2), clarinets (3), baritone horns (3), trumpets (4), and tubas (2). The location is 35/1 Vardhappa Rd., Belgaum 590004.
Two clarinets duet in the center of the Basavanneppa Band playing in formation during a baraat wedding procession. The researchers’ camera and video recorder and tripod are held by research assistants. The Basavanneppa Band includes bass drums (2), side drums (2), snare drums (2), clarinets (3), baritone horns (3), trumpets (4), and tubas (2). The location is 35/1 Vardhappa Rd., Belgaum 590004.
A caparisoned and saddled white Kacchi pony awaits a bridegroom. A clarinet musician plays, band members assemble, and school children gather to begin the baraat procession.
At a wedding procession, the male vocalist Mahadev B. Tavare sings in imitation of a woman's voice into a microphone as a clarinet musician plays. Band members surround him. The location is 35/1 Vardhappa Rd., Belgaum 590004.
At a baraat wedding procession, the male vocalist Mahadev B. Tavare sings, in imitation of a woman's voice, into a microphone (attached to a bicycle with an amplifier) with two clarinets; band members playing a side drum, a tāsa drum and trumpet are behind them. The location is 35/1 Vardhappa Rd., Belgaum 590004.
Members of the Basavanneppa Band at a baraat wedding procession. A band member holds a mini Casio keyboard and stands beside a microphone and amplifier attached to a bicycle. They are in front of an Indian Airlines bus. The location is 35/1 Vardhappa Rd., Belgaum 590004.
At a wedding procession, nine brass players and one clarinetist of the Basavanneppa Band stand alongside an Indian Airlines bus. The Basavanneppa Band includes bass drums (2), side drums (2), snare drums (2), clarinets (3), baritone horns (3), trumpets (4), and tubas (2). The location is 35/1 Vardhappa Rd., Belgaum 590004.
Two clarinets and a trumpet play in the center of a band in formation during a wedding procession as a city bus passes. The Basavanneppa Band includes bass drums (2), side drums (2), snare drums (2), clarinets (3), baritone horns (3), trumpets (4), and tubas (2). The location is 35/1 Vardhappa Rd., Belgaum 590004.
Two clarinets and a trumpet play in the center of a band in formation during a wedding procession as a city bus passes. The Basavanneppa Band includes bass drums (2), side drums (2), snare drums (2), clarinets (3), baritone horns (3), trumpets (4), and tubas (2). The location is 35/1 Vardhappa Rd., Belgaum 590004.
Members of the Basavanneppa Band at a baraat wedding procession. A band member holds a mini Casio keyboard and stands beside a microphone and amplifier attached to a bicycle. They are in front of an Indian Airlines bus. The location is 35/1 Vardhappa Rd., Belgaum 590004.
Nine brass players of the Basavanneppa Band in front of an Indian Airlines bus at a wedding procession. “Basawaneppa Band Belgaum” is written on large a megaphone. The Basavanneppa Band included bass drums (2), side drums (2), snare drums (2), clarinets (3), baritone horns (3), trumpets (4), and tubas (2). The location is 35/1 Vardhappa Rd., Belgaum 590004.
Overhead view of the Basavanneppa Band at an intersection during a baraat wedding procession. The Basavanneppa Band included bass drums (2), side drums (2), snare drums (2), clarinets (3), baritone horns (3), trumpets (4), and tubas (2)04.
Bishop Mar Aprem (left), of the Syrian Christian Church, Nestorian Church of the East. Deacon E. L. Verghese (right) (ordained in 1929), remembers someone (A. A. Bake) recording the Deacons in 1938.
Performance of a dance by the Om Periyaswamy dance troupe at the Tamil Nadu Hotel. Dancer balances a kavadi (small wooden structure with an arch covered with a piece of cloth) on his back while dancing. Blurry photo.
Performance of a dance by the Om Periyaswamy dance troupe at the Tamil Nadu Hotel. Dancer balances a kavadi (small wooden structure with an arch covered with a piece of cloth) on his back while dancing. Blurry photo.
Performance of a dance by the Om Periyaswamy dance troupe at the Tamil Nadu Hotel. Dancer balances a kavadi (small wooden structure with an arch covered with a piece of cloth) on his back while dancing. Blurry photo.
Doreswami, age 80, listens to A. A. Bake’s 1938 recordings, reacts, and identifies some of them, especially items from three (Tefi 6, 7, and 8). The interview was recorded at the Usilampatty Circuit House. Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy plays the recordings on TCD5 cassette player as Doreswami places the speaker against his ear, as he is somewhat deaf.
Facade of a church (?) with an attached sign reading "Ave Maria" at the top. Below the sign are bas relief figures of an Ādivāsī hunter, with a dog, aiming a crossbow or rifle at a tiger with a deer watching. Hunters and tigers are often seen on Syrian Christian churches in Kerala. The hunter represents the Keralite, the tiger represents Tipu Sultan and his invasion of Kerala.
Partly loaded jeep for a field trip, at the entrance to the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology, on the premises of the American Institute of Indian Studies at Deccan College. The head of the driver, Ram Gaekwad, is visible at the back of the jeep. Umashankar Mantravadi, member of the Bake Restudy team, is on the right.
Kalpana Bandiwdekar, Archive Assistant at the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology (left), and Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy at the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology, on the premises of the American Institute of Indian Studies.
Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy (front, right) and others beside the partly loaded jeep at the entrance to the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology, on the premises of the American Institute of Indian Studies at Deccan College.
The Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology Bake Restudy team beside the jeep, loaded for the field trip: Umashankar Mantravadi; Ashok Ranade, associate director; Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy; Saraswathi Swaminathan, archivist (in yellow); library assistant (unidentified); Kalpana Bandiwdekar, archive assistant; and M. D. Bhandare, American Institute of Indian Studies staff member.
The Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology Bake Restudy team beside the jeep, loaded for the field trip: Umashankar Mantravadi; Ashok Ranade, associate director; Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy; Saraswathi Swaminathan, archivist (in yellow); library assistant (unidentified); Kalpana Bandiwdekar, archive assistant; and M. D. Bhandare, American Institute of Indian Studies staff member.
The Bake Restudy team beside the jeep, from left: Umashankar Mantravadi (2nd); Kalpana Bandiwdekar, Archive Assistant at the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology (2nd); Saraswathi Swaminathan, Archivist at the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology (4th); M. D. Bhandare (5th), American Institute of Indian Studies staff member; and Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy (6th).
The Bake Restudy team beside the jeep, from left: Umashankar Mantravadi; Kalpana Bandiwdekar, Archive Assistant at the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology (blue shirt); Saraswathi Swaminathan, Archivist at the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology (tan sari); Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy, ethnomusicologist; M. D. Bhandare, American Institute of Indian Studies staff member.
Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy (center, in red); M. D. Bhandare, American Institute of Indian Studies staff (left); Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology archivist Saraswathi Swaminathan (in yellow); archive assistant Kalpana Bandiwdekar (2nd from right); and others beside the partly loaded jeep at the entrance to the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology, on the premises of the American Institute of Indian Studies at Deccan College.
Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy (center left); Umashankar Mantravadi, Bake Restudy team member; and others beside the partly loaded jeep at the entrance to the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology, on the premises of the American Institute of Indian Studies at Deccan College.
Office staff member of the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology, with a dog on the morning the jeep was loaded for the Bake Restudy field trip.
View of the partly loaded jeep for the field trip, at the entrance to the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology, on the premises of the American Institute of Indian Studies. Umashankar Mantravadi, Bake Restudy team member, is on the right; the head of the driver, Ram Gaekwad, is visible at the back of the jeep.
The Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology Bake Restudy team: library assistant (unidentified); Kalpana Bandiwdekar, Archive Assistant; Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy; Saraswathi Swaminathan, Archivist; and M. D. Bhandare, AIIS staff member.
View of the partly loaded jeep in front of the entrance to the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology, on the premises of the American Institute of Indian Studies, at Deccan College.
View of the partly loaded jeep at the entrance to the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology, on the premises of the American Institute of Indian Studies at Deccan College.
Six office staff members of the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology, with Ram Gaekwad, driver (2nd from left), beside the jeep, loaded for the field trip.
Round base of a fountain (?). Sculptural decoration includes Christ on cross and a mother and child (upper center), and an elephants (lower left). The fountain is probably on the grounds of the church with the “Ave Maria” sign.
Haranśikārī (Haran Shikari, Haranshikari) community drummer, Ranjit, children and women sing and clap Bhāṭ songs after hearing A. A. Bake’s 1938 recordings of Bhāṭs made. At Gangadhar Nagar.
Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy and Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy leave the Krishna temple. Chandappa Jampana Kattimani in a grey fez and glasses watches between them, with boys and women. At Gangadhar Nagar.
Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy, Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Chandappa Jampana Kattimani (Haranśikārī, Haran Shikari, Haranshikari leader), and his brother, Corporator of Gangadhar Nagar, sitting on folding chairs on a verandah. At Gangadhar Nagar.
Ritualist Chandappa Jampana Kattimani and sons wear red. A young man plays a daf. Other Haranśikārī (Haran Shikari, Haranshikari) men watch. At Gangadhar Nagar.
Ritualist Chandappa Jampana Kattimani anoints silver and gold bas-relief devi images of Seven Goddesses placed on cotton batting on a woven carpet. His son holds a dagger. An unidentified ritual object lies in front of the goddesses. Children and women watch. At Gangadhar Nagar.
Chandappa Jampana Kattimani raises his right hand as he chants. His sons and village men, women and children listen. HIs young grandson looks into camera. At Gangadhar Nagar.
Chandappa Jampana Kattimani bends forward as he chants. His sons and village men, women and children listen. One son looks into camera. At Gangadhar Nagar.
An older man in a red skirt, patterned shawl, and waist-bells holds a sword upright and watches a Chandappa Jampana Kattimani’s young grandson dancing with ankle bells. Kattimani watches smiling; a tiny woman in a blue sari in front of him watches. A bearded man dances with a sword overhead. Haranśikārī (Haran Shikari, Haranshikari) villagers watch and look into the camera. A clay-tiled roof and building is behind them; an altar of three bricks, ashes, and fire pit are in the foreground. At Gangadhar Nagar.
Chandappa Jampana Kattimani’s young grandson in red shorts rises while dancing ecstatically with his father’s help. Kattimani smiles and watches. Other Haranśikārī (Haran Shikari, Haranshikari) watch. An altar of three bricks and ashes is in the foreground. At Gangadhar Nagar.
Gangadhar Nagar community leader Chandappa Jampana Kattimani holds a photograph and obituary of the musicologist Arnold Adriaan Bake. He is being interviewed off camera by Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy, who asks whether he remembers Bake’s visit in 1938.
Gangadhar Nagar community leader Chandappa Jampana Kattimani holds a photograph and obituary of the musicologist Arnold Adriaan Bake. He is being interviewed off camera by Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy, who asks whether he remembers Bake’s visit in 1938.
Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy, Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Chandappa Jampana Kattimani (Haranśikārī, Haran Shikari, Haranshikari leader), and his brother the Corporator of Gangadhar Nagar, sitting on a verandah. At Gangadhar Nagar.