Scroll Painting
ca. 1940 (made)
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Scroll painting, watercolour on paper, with a cloth support, with ten panels, depicting the scenes:
1. Maravu Buru, Jahar Era and Sin Chando (resembling the Jagannath trio),
2. Garur bonga and Harur bonga (bird and monkey),
3. A recumbent man and woman,
4. Two men supplicating to Moreko Turniko (four-headed god with bird vahana),
5. Three men carrying vessels,
6. Sacrifice of a fowl in a grove,
7. Four women and two male drummers,
8. A cow sacrifice,
9. Python hunt,
10. Krishna stealing the gopis' clothes.
1. Maravu Buru, Jahar Era and Sin Chando (resembling the Jagannath trio),
2. Garur bonga and Harur bonga (bird and monkey),
3. A recumbent man and woman,
4. Two men supplicating to Moreko Turniko (four-headed god with bird vahana),
5. Three men carrying vessels,
6. Sacrifice of a fowl in a grove,
7. Four women and two male drummers,
8. A cow sacrifice,
9. Python hunt,
10. Krishna stealing the gopis' clothes.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Painted in watercolour on paper, with cloth support |
| Brief description | Scroll painting, deities, sacrifice, drummers, hunting, watercolour on paper with cloth support, Santhal, ca. 1940 |
| Physical description | Scroll painting, watercolour on paper, with a cloth support, with ten panels, depicting the scenes: 1. Maravu Buru, Jahar Era and Sin Chando (resembling the Jagannath trio), 2. Garur bonga and Harur bonga (bird and monkey), 3. A recumbent man and woman, 4. Two men supplicating to Moreko Turniko (four-headed god with bird vahana), 5. Three men carrying vessels, 6. Sacrifice of a fowl in a grove, 7. Four women and two male drummers, 8. A cow sacrifice, 9. Python hunt, 10. Krishna stealing the gopis' clothes. |
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| 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. |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Bibliographic reference | 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.) :
no. 59, first panel illustrated. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | IS.29-1978 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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