Gīgīpada (Gigipada, Gīgī Pada) singers of the Holeya community (left to right): Yerappa Basavappa Sutagaji, of Kalma Galli (voice and taal or jhāñjh cymbals); Ramachandra Ramappa Dhavale, of Tigadi Galli (voice and daf); and Basappa Gagappa Talwar, of Talwar Galli (voice and tuṇtuṇe). Gigipada singers performed Kannada songs, created by Hulkund Basappa, Purandara Dasa, and Hosur Somappa, at festivals. They sang mystical songs, auspicious songs, and modern songs on sanitation and cleanliness of body and mind.
Gondhal ceremony--Inauguration of the Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology. Devotional ritual music to Hindu Goddess Amba. Standing behind a mandhab, vocal ensemble musicians with instruments (left to right): Jagannath Tite (tuṇtuṇe), Bhagvan Renake (jālra), and R. H. Garuda (sambal). A flame, incense and objects are on the left.
Jāgran (Vāghyā Muralī)--Inauguration of the Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology. Behind the mandhab, Mānik Bāī gestures and holds a tuṇtuṇe, and a musician sings and plays jālra, during a Jāgran (Hindu ritual): Vāghyā Muralī Jāgran – Marathi devotional ritual music to Hindu deity Khaṇḍobā Goddess Amba. A flame and objects are on the left.
On the day of an enactment of the folk tale about Lord Krishna, his two wives, and the magical pārijāt tree, the Mallava Megeri Krishna Pārijāta Company poses outdoors on a dhurrie carpet, with actors Shrimati Mallava Megeri, troupe leader, holding a doll; Gudusab Nadat Khajidoni; and Mallakajappa Mallappa Gaddankeri (Krishna); and with musicians Krishnaji Varad Tulasigiri (tablā); Hanuman Mastar (harmonium); and Ramanna Sonshi (taal).
In an open area in the village, the musicians are, from left: unidentified musician (pambai, drum pair), A. K. Ganesan (tavil), unidentified musician (instrument blocked), unidentified musician (“shrutiputtu” shrutipeti, “tone box”) pumped free-reed aerophone (substitutes for traditional ottu reed pipe), I. P. Kurusāmi (nāgasvaram), unidentified musician (nāgasvaram), unidentified musician (taḷām cymbals), M. Raman is behind a musician (tavil), unidentified (timiri – small membranophone played with two sticks), Karutta Kannan (pambai, single drum), and behind Karutta Kannan, an unidentified musician (pambai, drum pair). Nāiyāndī Mēḷam ensemble (also known as Periya Nayanam, Kaliyappan Mela Cettu, Urumbi (Urummi, Uṟumi) Mēḷam).
Seated portrait of Tiruppati, age 62, singing, the blind leader of Madurai Meenakshi Temple bhajan mandali (group devotional, sacred song singers). Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy and Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy went to Madurai especially to meet Tiruppati, whom A. A. Bake recorded in 1938.
Gondhal ceremony--Inauguration of the Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology. Three musicians perform a Jāgran (Hindu ritual): Vāghyā Muralī Jāgran – Marathi devotional ritual music to Hindu deity Khaṇḍobā and Goddess Amba. Standing behind a mandhab, musicians (left to right): Jagannath Tite (tuṇtuṇe), Bhagvan Renake (jālra), and R. H. Garuda (sambal). A flame, incense and objects are on the left.
In an open area in the village, the musicians are, from left: unidentified musician (pambai, drum pair), A. K. Ganesan (tavil), unidentified musician (instrument blocked), unidentified musician (“shrutiputtu,” shrutipeti, “tone box”) pumped free-reed aerophone (substitutes for traditional ottu reed pipe), I. P. Kurusāmi (nāgasvaram), unidentified musician (nāgasvaram), unidentified musician (tāḷam cymbals), M. Raman is behind a musician (tavil), unidentified musician (timiri – small membranophone played with two sticks), Karutta Kannan (pambai, single drum, and pambai, drum pair). Nāiyāndī Mēḷam ensemble (also known as Periya Nayanam, Kaliyappan Mela Cettu, Urumbi (Urummi, Uṟumi) Mēḷam).
Five Kota women dance in a circle with hands above their heads while encircling Kota men musicians playing two kinpar barrel drums, a koḷ double-reed aerophone, jālra bronze cymbals and a tabaṭk frame drum. The women wear traditional cotton varad wrapped around the body and left shoulder, over sari blouses. The dances are for the Kambattaraya festival held for 21 days in January, and announced as: 1) kalkujattam “leg joining dance,” 2) tiruganāṭ dāk / tirukanat (turning dance), 3) bibarmarattam (?). In Ticgār (Trichagadi) Village, near Lovedale, Ooty (Udagamandalam).
Gondhal ceremony--Inauguration of the Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology. Three musicians perform a Jāgran (Hindu ritual): Vāghyā Muralī Jāgran – Marathi devotional ritual music to Hindu deity Khaṇḍobā Goddess Amba. Standing behind a mandhab, musicians (left to right): R. H. Garuda, singing (sambal), Bhagvan Renake, (jālra), and Jagannath Tite, singing (tuṇtuṇe). A flame, incense and objects are on the right.