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

Description:: 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.
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:: 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.
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:: View of a flooded forest in the foreground, with mountain silhouettes in the background.
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:: View of a flooded forest with mountains in the distance
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:: Sixteen visible girls in bright long skirts and blouses stand in a line, some holding hands, with an image of an elephant, representing the vahana of Goddess Lakshmi (thus worshiping Shakti, the feminine principle) on the ground in front of them.
Date:: February 20, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: A man in white plays a daf; Haranśikārī (Haran Shikari, Haranshikari) ritualist Chandappa Jampana Kattimani dances with his eyes closed as men, women and children gathered around him watch; Gaekwad, driver of the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology research team, stands and guards villagers.
Date:: February 23, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: I. P. Kurusāmi, hereditary temple processional musician, plays a nāgasvaram, a long multiple-reed aerophone. Kurusāmi was a member of a Nāiyāndī Mēḷam ensemble (also known as Periya Nayanam, Kaliyappan Mela Cettu, Urumi (Urumbi, Urummi) Mēḷam).
Date:: March 11, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: A. K. Ganesan, hereditary temple processional musician, plays tavil barrel-shaped drum. Ganesan was a member of a Nāiyāndī Mēḷam ensemble (also known as Periya Nayanam, Kaliyappan Mela Cettu, Urumbi (Urummi, Uṟumi) Mēḷam).
Date:: March 11, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Venkatacalam Tevar (aka Pillai), professional singer and tep player, singing “Kaman Pāndigai,” a Tamil lavani genre sung in debate form. He has no sisyas as the form is out of fashion.
Date:: March 12, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Children watch a Villupāttu ritual with adults standing behind them at an Ayyappan Temple (also known as Villupattu, Villadichampaatu, and Villisai).
Date:: March 17, 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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