Collection: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts / Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Ethnomusicology Archive - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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

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

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

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

Description:: Abdul Karim Ismail Saheb carving of leaves on the gourd of sitar or taṃbūrā. Grape leaves, tendrils, and grape bunches are carved into wooden panels glued to tumba gourd of taṃbūrā or sitar. The location is the verandah of the workshop 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

Description:: Twelve Banjara women dance (welcome song for marriage?) with raised arms, bedecked with white bangles. They wear large nose rings and elaborate necklaces. Their long cholīs (blouses), 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 / ḍapla (?) for their song. Other men had left for work in fields. Bañjārā homes 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

Description:: Musicians: Mahadev M. Naik, singer and ektara; Ganpati Pawar, dimdi (small daf), M. Shaluke and with jhāñjh (small hand cymbals). Performers of Hindi bhajan by Kabir Das. 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

Description:: Banjara women dancing and singing accompanied by a daf or ḍapla (?). Two women bedecked with white bangles with arms and bodies lowered, as Gajā, plays a daf or ḍapla (?) with thin bamboo sticks. Dwellings 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

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

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

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