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Description:: Shahnaīs, a sur (shahnaī without tuning holes) and nagāṙā in the gateway to Amba Devi Deul.
Date:: December 16, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Date:: 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Jairazbhoy, Nazir Ali, 1927-2009
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Sreedharan Nair and his family in their garden in Vazhoor, with Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy (seated, center).
Date:: March 24, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Out of focus photograph of a house in a coconut grove.
Date:: March 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Pillai Theeni Theyyam: On the raised earthen platform, the demon dances in front of the pregnant woman while holding aloft a flapping white chicken in his right hand. He dances while seated on the floor, his skirt of split palm leaves askew, with flames burning in his split palm leaf headdress. He is unrestrained by ritualists from attacking the "pregnant" woman, as he has accepted their offering of a white chicken, instead of the unborn child’s fetus. He The woman sits cowering behind a bunch of areca blossoms held in front of her abdomen. A Pulluvan ritualist brings a lighted torch, perhaps to protect her from the demon. Ceṇḍa (chenda) and smaller viku ceṇḍa drummers and cymbal players play standing to her right on the raised earthen platform. The demon is played by the Malayan dancer and teacher P.K. Panicker (Pallipurattu House, Kizhara PO, Cannanore. Malayan and Panan communities).
Date:: April 6, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: After listening to the A. A. Bake 1938 recording (Tefi 27.6), identified as a Parayan Thullal genre dance drama song from “Pulundhi Moksham” written by Kunjan Nambiar about an Ādivāsī couple sung by two singers, thullal musicians perform the same song for the field researchers to record on PCM. Right, seated: Thankappan Nair, lead singer. Center, standing: uḍukku variable tension hourglass drum player. Second singer using book to sing lyrics. Center: B. C. Balachandar, thullal dancer. Location: Ayamkudy village, Kottayam District, Kerala.
Date:: March 27, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Seventeen visible girls (of 18) in bright long skirts and blouses hold hands as they sing and dance in a circle around the image of an elephant, representing the vahana of Goddess Lakshmi, thus worshiping Shakti, the feminine principle.
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:: Abdul Karim Ismail Saheb cutting indentations into decorative celluloid strips in the making of a sitar or taṃbūrā. This is the first stage of the scrimshaw process in which scratches are made in the decorative strips, to be filled with pigment in the next stage. The location is the verandah of the workshop of Abdul Karim Ismail Saheb.
Date:: December 19, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Kuḍuma (pot drum), view of the drumhead playing surface and resonator. Used by the Bagata (Bhagatā) people, from Paderu, near Chintapalli, Vishakhapatnam district. A.P. photo. Possession of the Tribal Cultural Research and Training Institute.
Date:: December 21, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: View of the main facade of the Lady of Ransom Church.
Date:: March 18, 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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