Genre: slides (photographs) / Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Ethnomusicology Archive - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Gopibai Sivlal, a Kanjar Bhāṭ woman, dances in the Rajasthani ghumar style while women sing and clap. She dances to the same songs as were recorded by musicologist A. A. Bake in 1938, (Tefi# 63.12) “Bhat dance with women’s song” and “Kamlivalo” (“Blanket Man”), about Prophet Mohammed. At Gangadhar Nagar. This scene was used in the Bake Restudy video. Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy and Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy returned in 1991 and they performed the same song with additional historical verses.
Date:: February 23, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Residents of Choondal Village look towards the camera.
Date:: April 3, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Two children play in an open area of the village bordered by tile-roof homes, with carts, a tree and adults at work. An open sewer is visible on the right.
Date:: February 23, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Two adult Nair women oracles sit upon a sarpam kalam ritual drawing of entwined snakes as the naga spirit continues to entrance them. They wear dark choli blouses with white dupattas and white half saris. Four red column of the ritual pandal structure delimit the central area of the ritual space, over which split bamboo strips and symbolic folded bamboo ornaments are festooned. The women hold areca nut blossom stalks, and their bodies have begun to vibrate as they scoot over the kalam, using the blossoms like brooms to sweep away the colored powders, thereby symbolically absorbing the serpent’s spirit. The women are probably the adult sisters or sister’s daughters of the male head of the household, as the usual pre-pubescent girls must not have been available. This is an annual household Sarpam Thullal Pulluvan Serpent Ritual held at a Sarpa Kaavu (snake grove) in a private home in Peramangalam village.
Date:: April 2, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Venkatacalam Tevar (also known as Pillai) professional singer and tep player. Singing “Kaman Pāndigai,” a lavani genre sung in debate form, while playing tep (frame drum). With his eyes closed, he gestures with his right hand.
Date:: March 12, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Panan Narayanan Perinceri, age 80, with an uḍukkai/uḍukku hourglass variable tension membranophone at an A. A. Bake re-recording session. They listened to the Bake recording (Tefi Item 31.4) “Pullovan Waking Up Song” from April 8, 1938. They re-recorded “Thuyil Unarthu Pattu” – “Morning Wakeup Song.”
Date:: April 3, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Underexposed image with a demon in the background.
Date:: April 6, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

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