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Group portrait of the family of Abdul Karim, owner of Abdul Karim Ismail Saheb and Sons, Miraj (India), 1963

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
Group portrait of the family of Abdul Karim, owner of Abdul Karim Ismail Saheb and Sons, Miraj (India), 1963

Event 24: Om Periyaswamy & Nāiyāndī Mēḷam - Madurai

Description:
A Nāiyāndī Mēḷam ensemble plays two preludes before the dance and song performances begin. <br/><br/>1. Folk Tune prelude. (00:00) There are bird sounds, visuals of horse costumes, a man assembles the dancers' headgear and props. (04:00) Nazit Jairazbhoy, off camera, asks "Shattakolai?, shattakolai?" A player nods. <br/><br/>2. Music prelude with karam pot dance tune. The musicians are, from left, Conai (urumbi, urummi, uṟumi) double-headed variable tension membranophone with curving stick), Mukkasāmi, the leader, a Paraiyan (non-hereditary musician) from Karamattur (sattakolai multiple-reed aerophone with 10 holes), a drummer in light blue shirt and white shawl (small single-headed membranophone with two sticks), Kalidasa, tall drummer, (pambai double-headed membranophone pair with two slightly curving sticks), Venkatesan (tavil double-headed membranophone); and Cuppiramaniyan, in a dark blue shirt, (taḷām cymbals). <br/><br/>3. Poikkaal Kuthirai Aattam dance is performed by Madurai Om Periyaswamy, son of Om Periyaswamy, and another dancer, each wearing a “false leg horse” or "dummy-horse” costume. They do battle with dancers in red costumes, who are "slain" and carried away. Om Periaswami talks to musicians, followed by a series of Karakāṭṭam pot dances. <br/><br/>4. - 9. Karakāṭṭam, an acrobatic dance performed with pots balanced on the head, in praise of the rain goddess Mariamman. Dancers include daughters of Om Periyaswamy, Madurai Om Periyaswamy, and 1 other man. <br/><br/>7. Karakāṭṭam dance, hoops. <br/><br/>8. Karakāṭṭam dance ladders. 9. Karakāṭṭam dance ladders and karana poses. A woman perched on the ladders holds karana poses. <br/><br/>10. Karakāṭṭam dance, sari. Madurai Om Periyaswamy, wearing a Karakam on his head that is topped by a parrot, unwraps a sari on the ground, then rolls on the sari until he rises fully clothed in the sari, and wears it as he performs with the other dancers, Cārangapāni and Ayyamāl, also balancing pots and parrots on their heads, to the kāvadi cintu hemiola meter. He then unwraps the sari, folds it, and dances with the two other dancers to the continuing kāvadi cintu hemiola meter, until they all bow. <br/><br/>11. Kāvadi. Dance performed by Cenatipati (son of Om Periyaswamy). <br/><br/>12. Nāiyāndī Mēḷam postlude. Musicians Arunachalam Pillai (nāgasvaram) and Sankarayya Pillai (ottu drone nāgasvaram) perform. <br/><br/>13. Sattakolai Demonstration. At the end a sattakolai (cattak kuḻāy) demonstration is performed by Mukkasāmi.
Date:
March 14, 1984
Resource Type:
moving image
Photographer:
Jairazbhoy, Nazir Ali, 1927-2009
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Event 24: Om Periyaswamy & Nāiyāndī Mēḷam - Madurai

Event 20: Kallar singer with uḍukkai - Usilampatty

Description:
The musician, Tukpuvacca Kaalgalukku Tuttipuvam Calladaiyum (nicknamed Komāli which means clown), sings songs. He used a fortune-teller's udukkai as he had not brought his own, which is a different type of udukkai. Items 1 - 3 were recorded on video and audio cassette. 4. Temmāngu (harvest song): "Mayile." Voice alone. Description of different rice grains. 5. and 6. Two drama Songs from Pavalakkodi, a famous 1934 Tamil mythological film with music composed by Papanasam Sivan. Voice and tāḷam (singer accompanies himself). The 1938 A. A. Bake recording, Bake 6.6: "Kallar mens' song about a queen" was played back during Item 5, but was not recorded.
Date:
March 13, 1984
Resource Type:
sound recording
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Event 20: Kallar singer with uḍukkai - Usilampatty

Theyyam festival - Kummāṭṭī Thumbi pāṭṭu “Dragonfly Song” performance, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Description:
Kummāṭṭī (Kummattikali) is a mask dance of Kerala. Image of a Kummāṭṭī Thumbi pāṭṭu “Dragonfly Song” performance of a “play song” usually performed in door-to-door processions during Onam. Nayar male teens play on a villu kottu striking their bows. Three singing, masked dancers are covered in kummatti leaves. Two of them beat a masked old woman walking with a stick, the mother Thamma, because she is “licentious” and is too friendly with the audience. The actor on the left wears a black mask and crown-like headdress; the mother Thamma character wears an old woman mask and a white cloth headdress. Performed by V. P. Paul and party.
Date:
April 6, 1984
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Theyyam festival - Kummāṭṭī Thumbi pāṭṭu “Dragonfly Song” performance, Kalliasseri (India), 1984

Sarpam Thullal Pulluvan Serpent Ritual - preparation of the pandal canopy and kalam floor, Peramangalam (India), 1984

Description:
Preparation of the canopy of the pandal structure and the kalam floor design for a Sarpam Thullal serpent ritual. Decorative strips of leaves hang from the upper edge of the ritual area. A lighted diya oil lamp stands near a decorated post. Blurry focus. The Sarpam Thullal Pulluvan Serpent Ritual was 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
Sarpam Thullal Pulluvan Serpent Ritual - preparation of the pandal canopy and kalam floor, Peramangalam (India), 1984