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Scroll Painting

1900-1949 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Scroll painting, watercolour on paper, with a cloth support, in four panels. The panels show:
1. A twin-headed python is killed for the cooking-pot (this panel shows a strong Bengali influence),
2. Three male drummers and five Santal women dancing,
3. A python-hunt by a river, two women preparing food,
4. Three soldiers with rifles and a man clasping the tail of a crimson horse.


Object details

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Object type
Materials and techniques
Painted in watercolour on paper, with cloth support
Brief description
Scroll painting, pythons, soldiers and drummers, watercolour on paper with cloth support, Santhal, 20th century, collected 1940s
Physical description
Scroll painting, watercolour on paper, with a cloth support, in four panels. The panels show:
1. A twin-headed python is killed for the cooking-pot (this panel shows a strong Bengali influence),
2. Three male drummers and five Santal women dancing,
3. A python-hunt by a river, two women preparing food,
4. Three soldiers with rifles and a man clasping the tail of a crimson horse.
Dimensions
  • Total length length: 164cm
  • Total width, equal to length of battons width: 35cm
  • Excluding wooden battons at ends; painting length: 161cm
  • Painting width: 34cm
1978 dimensions are from the accession register.
Style
Credit line
Given by Mr. John C. Irwin, 1978.
Object history
The scroll was originally collected by W.G. Archer. The Museum received the scroll as a gift from John C. Irwin in 1978.
Production
This Santal scroll painting comes under the folk scroll category described as 'Jadupata' (magic scroll). The scroll was painted by two 'Jadupatuas' (magical scroll painters) from Santal Parganas district, Bihar.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Mildred Archer: Indian Popular Painting in the India Ofice Library London: Her Majesty's Stationery Ofice 1977 ISBN 0 11 580184 7
  • Arts of Bengal : the heritage of Bangladesh and eastern India : an exhibition organized by the Whitechapel Art Gallery in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum : 9 November-30 December 1979, Whitechapel Art Gallery ..., 12 January-17 February 1980, Manchester City Art Gallery ... . [London]: Whitechapel Art Gallery, [1979] Number: 085488047X (pbk.) : p.43
Collection
Accession number
IS.26-1978

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Record createdOctober 17, 2003
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