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Date:: December 16, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: At the workshop of Vilayat Hussain Brothers, instrument makers, and three gourds (tumba) in various stages of preparation for making a sitar or taṃbūrā.
Date:: December 19, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Tipanne Sadasiva, a classical musician, with a shehnai. A cloth is stuffed into the bell. A man playing a surpeṭī (free reed aerophone used for drone) accompanies him. The Location is the shop 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:: Two small monkeys, tied with a rope attached to their collars, with their trainer. They are beside the Volkswagen van of ethnomusicologist Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy’s, during his musical research journey through India. License plate BHX 56A.
Date:: 1963-1964
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Jairazbhoy, Nazir Ali, 1927-2009
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Inside the temple: altar with three arches to Ganesha, three deities, and Brahma with four faces. 1) Ganesha, 2) Lakshman, his brother Ramachandra (Lord Rama), and Rama’s wife Sita, 3) Brahma with four faces, carrying calf on his back.
Date:: December 14, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Kathodi (Katkari) Ādivāsī women dance in curving line as Felix van Lamsweerde records audio holding a Neuman microphone for an NA reel-to-reel tape recorder slung over his shoulder.
Date:: December 14, 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

Date:: 1963-1964
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Jairazbhoy, Nazir Ali, 1927-2009
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: A man holding a child, standing behind a ḍholak drum with others watching from behind him and a hut on the left.
Date:: November 5, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: View from ship entering Karachi harbor. Small boats come to meet the ship; sailors are possibly selling items.
Date:: September 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

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