Genre: black-and-white photographs - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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:: 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

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

Description:: Moment of impact, stroke 'dhe' (of dehete)
Date:: October 3, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy (center) holds a child in front of the loaded Volkswagen van, next to Yacoob Rajabally (also known as Yacoob Qawwal and Yacoob Premragi) (smoking), with Abdul Karim Ismail Saheb (left), Felix van Lamsweerde (right), and others.
Date:: December 19, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Cawandga view from underside, a variable tension monochord whose string (not shown) is attached to a wooden handle, and stored within the wooden “drum.” The string is stretched and loosened by the left hand, while being plucked with the right-hand fingers. Three bronze bells ghanti are attached to a serpentine bronze wire hanging on two bronze rings attached to the wooden resonator, to which a leather carrying strap is attached to the wooden resonator. The bottom of the resonator is tightly covered by a thin leather membrane, through the center of which the end of the string passes, where it is knotted and tied to a small piece of raw cotton padding to prevent the membrane from tearing. A stitched piece of printed textile with a decorative tassel at its corner loosely covers the wooden body. 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:: Nāl, a Maharashtrian double-headed drum, on a stool in the house of L. N. Garg.
Date:: October 8, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Two men stand with Felix van Lamsweerde (right). The relief sculpture behind them includes nine apsaras (celestial dancers) carved in relief in temple niches, in dancing poses. Some of the apsaras are holding musical instruments.
Date:: December 16, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: S. B. Jadav plays a tuṇtuṇe (a plucked monochord) with a horsehead peg and wooden cylindrical resonator. His left thumbnail is sharpened to a point to pluck the string. Metal bands decorate the neck of the instrument. 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:: Vivek Jairazbhoy and Humay Jairazbhoy, sons of Amir Ali Jairazbhoy and Rafique Ali Jairazbhoy (nephews of Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy).
Date:: October 19, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Browse items