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Theyyam festival - Velikkala pāṭṭu healing exorcism of the Pulaya community, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Description:
This ceremony is a puja to introduce the velikkala, a ritual to help a woman conceive. The image shows a moment during a Velikkala exorcism; a kalam figure is doing a theyyam dance, as Bhairavan. The kalam figure wears a double-tiered white hat, beard, and red/black painted face. (Performed by Panayi Kumaran and party of the Pulayar community. Panan Kandy, Kokkalur P.O. Calicut District, Kerala).
Date:
April 8, 1984
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Theyyam festival - Velikkala pāṭṭu healing exorcism of the Pulaya community, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Theyyam festival - Velikkala pāṭṭu healing exorcism of the Pulaya community, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Description:
This ceremony is a puja to introduce the velikkala, a ritual to help a woman conceive. The image shows a moment during a Velikkala exorcism; a kalam figure is doing a theyyam dance, as Gandharva, wearing a wide red skirt, and huge headdress of palm fronds. (Performed by Panayi Kumaran and party of the Pulayar community. Panan Kandy, Kokkalur P.O. Calicut District, Kerala).
Date:
April 8, 1984
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Theyyam festival - Velikkala pāṭṭu healing exorcism of the Pulaya community, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Theyyam festival - Velikkala pāṭṭu healing exorcism of the Pulaya community, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Description:
This ceremony is a puja to introduce the velikkala, a ritual to help a woman conceive. The image shows a moment during a Velikkala exorcism; a kalam figure is doing a theyyam dance, as Gandharva, wearing a wide red skirt, and huge headdress of palm fronds. (Performed by Panayi Kumaran and party of the Pulayar community. Panan Kandy, Kokkalur P.O. Calicut District, Kerala).
Date:
April 8, 1984
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Theyyam festival - Velikkala pāṭṭu healing exorcism of the Pulaya community, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Theyyam festival - Maritheyyam (Mariyāṭṭam) ritual mask dance, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Description:
Introduction to Mari Theyyam, a healing exorcism ritual of the Pulayars community. The song on the origin of the instrument tudi is performed by percussion musicians in a procession to the stage, including a musician playing a chengila bronze gong, and a musician playing a tudi variable tension hourglass drum, using a curving stick. Dark and out of focus image. Performed by N. Kanhan Pujari and party.
Date:
April 8, 1984
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Theyyam festival - Maritheyyam (Mariyāṭṭam) ritual mask dance, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Theyyam festival - Padayāni Theyyam ritual mask dance, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Description:
Padayāni are a “row of soldiers” sent by Lord Siva at Lord Subrahmanya’s request to cool Goddess Kali’s anger, aroused the previous night during the Mudiyeṭṭu Theyyam when she fought and killed the demon Darika. The “soldiers” imitate the Goddess’ wrath, which causes her to laugh and forget her anger. In this image, two horses ("Kutira") with riders leap to the rhythm of the drums. Performed by Guru P. K. Madhavan (Pillai) and party.
Date:
April 8, 1984
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Theyyam festival - Padayāni Theyyam ritual mask dance, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Theyyam festival - Velikkala pāṭṭu healing exorcism of the Pulaya community, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Description:
This ceremony is a puja to introduce the velikkala, a ritual to help a woman conceive. The image shows a moment during a Velikkala exorcism; a kalam figure with its face painted black, wearing a white circle skirt and a crown, brandishes its sword; the 6th item of the performance. (Performed by Panayi Kumaran and party of the Pulayar community. Panan Kandy, Kokkalur P.O. Calicut District, Kerala).
Date:
April 8, 1984
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Theyyam festival - Velikkala pāṭṭu healing exorcism of the Pulaya community, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Theyyam festival - Velikkala pāṭṭu healing exorcism of the Pulaya community, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Description:
This ceremony is a puja to introduce the velikkala, a ritual to help a woman conceive. The image shows a seated musician playing a maddaḷam drum using a stick to strike it as a woman sings. (Performed by Panayi Kumaran and party of the Pulayar community. Panan Kandy, Kokkalur P.O. Calicut District, Kerala).
Date:
April 8, 1984
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Theyyam festival - Velikkala pāṭṭu healing exorcism of the Pulaya community, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Kota musicians playing music at a recording session, Ticgār (Trichagadi, India), 1984

Description:
Kota instrumental musicians and male singers (right) listening to A. A. Bake 1938 recordings Tefi# 48.7" Buffalo-catching tune," Tefi# 48.8: "Dance tune," and #48.9: "Funeral music for Todas," all three of which they then sang for a video field recording, along with several other items. Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy (right), listens through the headphone with recording equipment nearby (the table holding the video recorder in the right foreground, and microphone on a stand on the left.).
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 musicians playing music at a recording session, Ticgār (Trichagadi, India), 1984

Kota musicians arrive, Ticgār (Trichagadi, India), 1984

Description:
Kota instrumental musicians arrive, carrying instruments up the hill: two kinpar/kinvar large cylindrical drums dobar (left) and one tabaṭk frame drum (right). Behind them is a white Kota temple ("guṛy" in Kota), probably to Aynor or Amnor (father god). The green area around the temple where they are walking is called the guṛyvāl. Man on right is either mundkānōn (ritual leader) or a tērkārn (ritualist). The jeep of the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology is parked at bottom of the hill. Terraced rice fields are visible on the opposite hill. A white shrine with a silver dome sits halfway up the hill next to a large, leafy tree.
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 musicians arrive, Ticgār (Trichagadi, India), 1984

Theyyam festival - Padayāni Theyyam ritual mask dance, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Description:
Padayāni are a “row of soldiers” sent by Lord Siva at Lord Subrahmanya’s request to cool Goddess Kali’s anger, aroused the previous night during the Mudiyeṭṭu Theyyam when she fought and killed the demon Darika. The “soldiers” imitate the Goddess’ wrath, which causes her to laugh and forget her anger. In this image, Bhairavi: representing the hideous goddess Bhadrakali. A painted kolam mask, enormous crown, breastplate with jutting breasts and triangular waist piece, all made of areca tree laths. Performed by Guru P. K. Madhavan (Pillai) and party.
Date:
April 8, 1984
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Theyyam festival - Padayāni Theyyam ritual mask dance, Kalliasseri (India), 1984