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Krishna Pārijāt - Mallava Megeri Krishna Pārijāta Company members pose for a group portrait, Bailhongal (India), 1984

Description:
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).
Date:
February 21, 1984
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Krishna Pārijāt - Mallava Megeri Krishna Pārijāta Company members pose for a group portrait, Bailhongal (India), 1984

Om Periyaswamy with Nāiyāndī Mēḷam musicians with instruments at Tamilnadu Hotel, Madurai (India), 1984

Description:
Nāiyāndī Mēḷam musicians play in front of TamilNadu Hotel. From the left: Om Periyaswamy watches, in white kurta and lunghi; a man in white shirt stands behind him; a younger drummer in light blue shirt and white shawl plays a small single-headed membranophone with two sticks; Arunachalam Pillai (?) stands behind him; Conai plays urumbi (urummi, uṟumi) double-headed variable tension membranophone with curving stick to his right; Mukkasāmi plays a sattakulai (cattak kuḻāy) multiple-reed aerophone; Kalidasa, seen from the back, plays a pambai double-headed membranophone pair with two slightly curving sticks; Venkatesan plays tavil double-headed membranophone; and Cuppiramaniyan with hand taḷām cymbals, in a dark blue shirt and lunghi. The jeep of the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology is visible behind the group.
Date:
March 14, 1984
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Om Periyaswamy with Nāiyāndī Mēḷam musicians with instruments at Tamilnadu Hotel, Madurai (India), 1984

Kota women dance in a line with Kota men musicians playing behind them, Kollimalai (India), 1984

Description:
Five Kota women dance: Thirti Seethalakshmi, Thirti Mari, Thirti Neeji, Thirti Rajanmal, and Thirti Deki. Kota men play Kota musical instruments. From left: Thiru Kavundhan (kombu curved horn); Thiru K. Puchan, age 70, and Thiru Kavundhan, age 60 ( koḷ double-reed aerophone); Thiru K. Mylan (tabaṭk frame drum); Thiru M. K. Bellan and Thiru Beddi (kinpar double-headed drum). A Kota family watches on the right. In the background are Kota houses with stripes and tile roofs are visible with large trees and hills beyond. This scene was used in the video referenced below.
Date:
April 13, 1984
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Kota women dance in a line with Kota men musicians playing behind them, Kollimalai (India), 1984

Om Periyaswamy with Nāiyāndī Mēḷam musicians at TamilNadu Hotel, Madurai (India), 1984

Description:
Arunachalam Pillai, a hereditary musician, plays a nāgasvaram quadruple-reed aerophone artist (4th from left); Sankarayya Pillai, a nāgasvaram soloist, (center) plays an ottu drone nāgasvaram. Om Periyaswamy (2nd from left); Kalidasa (in profile) plays a pambai drum pair (3rd from left); Venkatesan plays a pambai double-headed membranophone pair with two slightly curving sticks (7th from left); Cuppiramaniyan with hand talām cymbals, in a dark blue shirt and lunghi (6th from left); Mukkasāmi watches, holding a sattakulai (cattak kuḻāy) multiple-reed aerophone (8th from left); and other musicians watch. The jeep of the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology stands behind the group.
Date:
March 14, 1984
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Om Periyaswamy with Nāiyāndī Mēḷam musicians at TamilNadu Hotel, Madurai (India), 1984

Om Periyaswamy with Nāiyāndī Mēḷam musicians with instruments, Madurai (India), 1984

Description:
Overhead shot of Nāiyāndī Mēḷam musicians. Mukkasāmi (center, seen from the back) plays a sattakulai (cattak kuḻāy) multiple-reed aerophone, and Conai plays urumbi (urummi, uṟumi) double-headed variable tension membranophone using a curved stick in his left hand. They interact facing each other. Behind them is a tamukku membranophone musician in a light blue shirt and white shawl. Kalidasa (left) plays a pambai membranophone pair, and a young musician (2nd from left) plays a small single-headed membranophone with two sticks. Om Periyaswamy (3rd from left) watches. Recorded outdoors near TamilNadu Hotel.
Date:
March 14, 1984
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Om Periyaswamy with Nāiyāndī Mēḷam musicians with instruments, Madurai (India), 1984

Babu Sherbande, Nila Sewlinga Vaghmare, and Ratna Shanka Vaghmare, Miraj (India), 1963

Description:
Musician and teacher Babu Sherbande plays manjira (small bronze finger cymbals) for a song sung by his student, Nila Sewlinga Vaghmare. She plays a cawandga, a variable tension monochord whose string is attached to a wooden handle, and stretched and loosened by the left hand, while being plucked with the right-hand fingers. Bronze bells (ghanti) are attached to the bronze holder for the strap that is attached to the wooden cylindrical body, whose upper edge is rimmed in bronze, and whose bottom is covered by a thin leather membrane, through which the end of the string passes and is tied. Bronze jingles are attached to the wooden handle. Nila Vaghmare’s daughter, Ratna Shankar Vaghmare, sings along and plays a tuṇtuṇe, a plucked monochord with a horsehead peg and a wooden cylindrical resonator. The cawandga and tuṇtuṇe were made in the shop of Abdul Karim Ismail Saheb, sitar makers of Miraj.
Date:
December 19, 1963
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Jairazbhoy, Nazir Ali, 1927-2009
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Babu Sherbande, Nila Sewlinga Vaghmare, and Ratna Shanka Vaghmare, Miraj (India), 1963

Ottan Thullal - B. C. Balachandar performs, Ayamkudy (India), 1984

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.
Date:
March 27, 1984
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Ottan Thullal - B. C. Balachandar performs, Ayamkudy (India), 1984

Mannan man, Perumal, dances at a festival of the Mannan Ādivāsī people, Mannakudi (Tamil Nadu, India), 1984

Description:
Mannan men dance beside Perumal (Mannan man), who dances wearing a floral garland, dressed in a pink floral half-sari, a white choli, an orange shrug, and a pink headband with a flower in the center. Behind him, a Mannan man bends forward and plays a maddaḷam, a barrel-shaped membranophone. The event is a festival of the Mannan Ādivāsī people with dance and music. The festival was held in honor of the goddess Madurai Minatci, and/or Kannaki and Kovalan (the heroine and hero of the Silappadikaram, a semi-legendary Hindu-Jain Tamil epic poem). The village of Mannankudi is near Kumili, which is 5 km from Thekkady.
Date:
March 23, 1984
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Mannan man, Perumal, dances at a festival of the Mannan Ādivāsī people, Mannakudi (Tamil Nadu, India), 1984