SANTAL PARGANAS PEOPLE CARVED WODDEN PANELS OF THE WEDDING LITTERS – PALKEE-

INDIAN AND HIMALAYAN FOLK AND TRIBAL ART,

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Himalaya, land of the masks … coming soon. Photo courtesy fbormanator http://www.flickr.com/photos/bormanator/2088188901/

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SANTAL PARGANAS PEOPLE CARVED WOODEN PANELS OF THE WEDDING (LITTERS) PALKEE AND A STILISTIC COMPARATION  WITH SOME THARU PEOPLE PANELS.

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… WHEN A SANTAL CRAFSMAN BEGINS HIS WORK ON THE LITTER, A PAIR OF PIGEONS IS SACRIFICED …..WHEN THE LITTER     IS COMPLETED     AND ITS      OWENER     TAKEN  POSSESSION   TWO MORE PIGEONS ARE PART OF ANOTHER SACRIFICE … THE ACTIVITY OF CARVING IS PART OF THE MARRIAGE    RITE,  AS    IS THE PROCESSION     OF      THE MARRIAGE LITTER…” (Unknown India: Ritual Art in Tribe and Village, Stella Kramrisch, Philadelphia 1968)

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Low relief narrative carvings, in an extremely frontal profile style, using the words of Ms Stella Kramrisch “…somehow paralleling Egyptian reliefs…”.

The plastic solidity of this low relief carving raider remember me a poetry that the Italian sculpture Marino Marini wrote for his raiders: ” I cavalieri portano dentro di sé la pazienza stoica dell’uomo antico che vede sprofondare il suo mondo e tuttavia non si arrende”.(Marino Marini 1944)

Marriage procession.

About the exhibition :” Palkee: Wedding Conveyances of North India” at the Crocker Art Museum of Sacramento  ( 216 O Street, Sacramento, CA 95814  USA )  more information on

http://www.crockerartmuseum.org/exhibitions/exhib_pages/Palkee.htm

 About the Oral Tradition and Primal Elements in the Santhal Musical Texts see the interesting writing  by Mr Onkar Prasad  on http://ignca.nic.in/ps_01014.htm .

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Monumental dancers on sari costume.

 

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Dancers in group. This iconography is common also with the one of the top of the Santal Banam lute.

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We can refind the same monumental and frontal iconography style of the dancers  in some of the most ancient and authentic Santal Banam carved tops . Photo Courtesy Sanza Art Premier Collection Bruxelles.

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Dancers and musicians.   la Revue Sciences et Voyages année 1955 – n° 110 “Les Santals peuple gai dans l’Inde tragique”
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Santal Hul. “Hul “is a Santali term, it means a movement for liberation and remember the Santal insurrection of the 1855 (read more on  “Santal Hul insurrection of Santal 1855-56: Expoits of Sidhu, Kanhu, Chand and Bhairab” by P. Sinha).

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