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Description:: View of the Vandiperiyar tea plantation hillsides with a few teak trees to provide shade canopy.
Date:: March 24, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: In Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary, a view across a lake with two hills in the background.
Date:: March 23, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: At the Vandiperiyar tea plantation, a slope of tea bushes with teak trees.
Date:: March 24, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Group portrait of Sreedharan Nair and three women.
Date:: March 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Date:: March 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Out of focus photograph of a house in a coconut grove.
Date:: March 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: View of a small chapel, with men and girls walking by.
Date:: March 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Nair women perform a Thiruvathirakali circle and clapping dance (also called kaikottikali, "hand-clap-play"). They also performed a song in praise of Saraswathi, a princess’ marriage from the Mahabharata, and a Mangalacharanam concluding piece. The leading performers are L. Chinamma (age 70), Parukutti Amma, and Ammini Mussath. They performed the dance after identifying A. A. Bake's 1938 recording (Tefi 27.7, or 31) of a song with lyrics concerning the Nala Damayanti story. The Thiruvathirakali dance is named for one of the 28 stars of Shiva. It is a ritual performed at the annual Dhanu festival in December-January, as well as at the Onam festival. The genre is also known as Kaikottikali (hand-clapping dance).<br>Ref. (Related Items): Ethnomusicology Archive, UCLA (coll. 198609_NA84): Bake Restudy Notes, p. 46, Jairazbhoy Diary, p. 87, Data Sheets, p. 192
Date:: March 27, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: 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
Date:: March 27, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Darika and Danavendra, holding swords, emerge from above the white curtain (lowered by two men). Kuli (Kooli) clown (right) bows, as if to touch their feet or perhaps Kali's feet (on the left). Koyimpata Nayar and Kali (2nd from left) approach Darika and Danavendra. Ceṇḍa (chenda) and maddaḷam musicians play. Pazhur Damodara Marar and party. Musicians: Kuruppanmar Marar.<br>Ref. (Related Items): Ethnomusicology Archive, UCLA (coll. 198609_NA84): Bake Restudy Notes, p. 66, Jairazbhoy Diary, p. 110, Data Sheets, p. 240-241
Date:: April 7, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

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