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Description:: Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy (left), Yacoob Rajabally (also known as Yacoob Qawwal and Yacoob Premragi) (center) and Felix van Lamsweerde in front of a building.
Date:: December 28, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Patricia O’Shea Jairazbhoy in a sari at the entrance of a contemporary home.
Date:: 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Date:: November 12, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Idiophone instruments in a museum display case.
Date:: 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Scholar L. S. Rajagopalan (left) observes Pulluvan musicians perform for a Sarpam Thullal ritual. The musicians include the leader, O. K. Raman (Pulluvan kudam, also Pulluvan vīṇā kunju); a second smaller Pulluvan kudam player; and women singers. 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:: In an open area in the village, I. P. Kurusāmi, hereditary temple processional musician, plays a nāgasvaram, a long multiple-reed aerophone. Kurusāmi was the leader of a Nāiyāndī Mēḷam ensemble (also known as Periya Nayanam ensemble; Kaliyappan Mela Cettu, Urumbi (Urummi, Uṟumi) Mēḷam).
Date:: March 11, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: At the home of Suresh Kumar (Pillai): “Lakshmi Nivas. Neelakantan.” From left: L. Velammal (age 80+, Suresh Kumar’s grandmother - father’s mother), and Rajeswari, (sister of Suresh Kumar), They sang the oppāri death laments that were recorded. Behind the two women are children of Suresh Kumar. Event 27 is the oppāri re-recording of the A. A. Bake 1938 Tefi# 21.7: “Death wail," sung by Perari Ma and Uccimali, Kovalam (Cape Comorin) 6 March 1938.
Date:: March 18, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Poraṭṭu Nāṭakam of the Panan community (Palakkad District, Kerala). Man in a white mundu, hitched up to show aggressiveness, approaches the center of the stage, glaring at the musicians. Two musicians stand behind him, playing jālra bronze cymbals and responding. Two musicians sit on a table further behind them, playing harmonium drone, mṛdaṅgam or ḍholak, and ceṇḍa (chenda). (Performers: K. Viswam and Party. Chembagaseri, Tattamangalam P.O., Palakkad District, Kerala).
Date:: April 7, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Two clarinets and a trumpet play in the center of a band in formation during a wedding procession as a city bus passes. The Basavanneppa Band includes bass drums (2), side drums (2), snare drums (2), clarinets (3), baritone horns (3), trumpets (4), and tubas (2). The location is 35/1 Vardhappa Rd., Belgaum 590004.
Date:: February 18, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Young Kota Ādivāsī men play kombu (kob) curving valveless trumpets while seated on grassy ground. In Ticgār (Trichagadi) Village, near Ooty (Udagamandalam).
Date:: April 13, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

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