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Description:: Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy standing on a balcony.
Date:: October 9, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: 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. Three bronze bells ghanti are attached to the bronze holder for the strap attached to the wooden cylindrical body, whose bottom is tightly covered by a thin leather membrane, through which the end of the string passes and is tied. Three bronze jingles are attached to the wooden handle. The instrument is said to have originated in the skull of the evil king Kartavirya Arjun, after he was beheaded by Lord Parasurama, son of Goddess Renuka/Yellamma. Devotees play the instrument in honor of Goddess Renuka-Yellamma and Lord Parasurama. The cawandga was made at the shop of Abdul Karim Ismail Saheb, sitar Makers of Miraj.
Date:: December 19, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Background tableau for the Durgā-pūjā Mahotsav festival. The goddess Durgā riding a roaring lion is used as the backdrop for the Durgā-pūjā. Her eight arms hold weapons and shields. God Ganesh with elephant-head and human body stands at left. Goddess Lakshmi stands between them. An Ādivāsī indigenous man stands at the right, with Goddess Durgā’s arrow touching his chest, close to the lion’s roaring mouth and upraised claw. Goddess Saraswati stands at right holding a veena, long-necked stick zither chordophone string musical instrument. The festival was held at the Cross Maidan garden in Dhobi Talao neighborhood.
Date:: October 24, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: On the porch in front of the shop of Abdul Karim Ismail Saheb, Maharashtrian instruments used to accompany songs such as Marathi abhang and bhakti git, and Hindi bhajan: ektara (two-string drone lute), dimdi (small frame membranophone); dipri/kartāl (wooden clappers), and jhāñjh (small hand cymbals).
Date:: December 19, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Jaya Patel, Suryakant Patel, Patricia O'Shea Jairazbhoy, and Jaya's son Navneet Patel (?) on the grounds of College of Fine Arts (?).
Date:: 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: The drums are in the possession of Balkrishna Maruti Rao Shirke.
Date:: October 4, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: One pair of kartāl wooden shakers with metal disks, meant to be held in one hand. A small rāmsāgar longneck lute with gourd resonator, and large rāmsāgar.
Date:: December 11, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Ḍholki, resting on a textile at the shop of Abdul Karim Ismail Sahab. The ḍholki is a small double-headed membranophone. Cotton lacing is tightened with the dumbbell-shaped wooden or metal tighteners. The smaller, higher-pitched head (left) is usually played by right hand, and the larger, lower-pitched head (right) is usually played by left hand.
Date:: December 19, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts