Collection: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Sculpture of a musician playing kinnari vīṇā at the Kesava Temple.
Date:: 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Gopuram (tower), entrance to the Kesava Temple
Date:: 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: View en route between Madurai and Usilampatty.
Date:: 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Date:: February 26, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

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

Description:: An elderly Kota couple sings a song after hearing the "same" song recorded by A. A. Bake in 1938. A man leans on a dobar double-headed drum. To his left, a koḷ shawm (double-reed aerophone) is held upright. Another man (left) holds a bugīr (3’ long bamboo trumpet). Kota men listen under large tree. In Ticgār (Trichagadi) Village, near Ooty (Udagamandalam).
Date:: April 13, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: 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.
Date:: March 14, 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 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.
Date:: March 13, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: A Kota Ādivāsī man and woman laugh during a playback session of music recorded in by A. A. Bake in 1938. Behind them, many Kota men, women, and children are sitting together on the grassy ground. In Ticgār (Trichagadi) Village, near Ooty (Udagamandalam).
Date:: April 13, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Kota Ādivāsī women sing and clap together at a session to play back music recorded by musicologist A. A. Bake in Southern India in 1938. Other Kota men and women listen. In Ticgār (Trichagadi) Village, near Ooty (Udagamandalam).
Date:: April 13, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

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