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Description:: Dark image with tamasha dancers.
Date:: December 16, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Banjara women dancing and singing. Six women dance (a welcome song for marriage?) with raised arms, bedecked with white bangles. They wear large nose rings, toe rings, and elaborate necklaces. Their long cholīs (blouse) gāgrās (ankle-length full skirts) and oṛhnīs (shawl worn over head, one end tucked into waist) are decorated with needlework, coins, and mirror work. The headman, Gajā, plays a daf for their song. Other men had left for work in fields. Huts and a thatch-roof cowshed are visible in the background. The village is 17 miles from Hyderabad.
Date:: December 21, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Ḍolu (large drum), and a small drum. Instruments of the Konda Reddi (Hill Reddi) people, Khammam District. 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:: Dhenka (?) (cf. Jantarungrai), a 2 stringed fretted lute, instrument of the Savārā people (Parvatipuram tāluk & Pālākoṇḍā, in Srikakulam District). 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:: Ḍolu (large drum). Instrument of the Konda Reddi (Hill Reddi) people, Khammam District. 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:: Banjara women and children are gathered for a women’s song recording session, with an overhead microphone held on a long bamboo pole by Yacoob Rajabally (also known as Yacoob Qawwal and Yacoob Premragi) (right). The village is 17 miles from Hyderabad.
Date:: December 21, 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

Description:: The family of Abdul Karim Ismail Saheb at their home and music shop. Abdul Karim smiles with his sons, grandsons, and workers. A portrait of a bearded man wearing turban and medals on the wall is possibly his grandfather.
Date:: December 19, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Banjara women with children discuss arrangements for the upcoming recording session of women’s songs. The women wear large nose rings, toe rings, and elaborate necklaces. Their long cholīs (blouses), gāgrās (ankle-length full skirts), and oṛhnīs (shawl worn over head, one end tucked into waist) are decorated with needlework, coins, and mirror work. The village is 17 miles from Hyderabad.
Date:: December 21, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: A young Banjara boy squints into the camera lens as Banjara women sing in a circle behind him. The village is 17 miles from Hyderabad.
Date:: December 21, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

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