The Tribal Art of Middle India Verrier Elwin Oxford University Press 1951 – An Interesting Old and Rare Couple of Southern Nepal protective masks no 42 & 43

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THE TRIBAL ART OF MIDDLE INDIA

 Verrier Elwin

Oxford University Press 1951

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MASK OF THE WEEK

An Interesting Old and Rare Couple of Southern Nepal protective masks

(Card no 42 & 43)

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Old Large Tamang Mask

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The Muria and Their Ghotul Verrier Elwin Oxford University Press 1947

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Old Himalayan Demon Mask Ethnoflorence Archive Collection

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March 24, 2018

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The Muria and Their Ghotul Verrier Elwin Oxford University Press 1947

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NEW YORK 

ASIA WEEK

2018

CARLO CRISTI

ASIAN ARTS

Galerie Hioco

Tenzin

Oriental Art

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Old Western Nepal mask

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Ancient Nepalese Magar mask

(Mask #331)

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Old Impressive Gurung nepalese mask

(mask #329)

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DOCUMENTING SANTAL MUSICAL TRADITIONS

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CURRENT EXHIBITION

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DOCUMENTING

SANTAL MUSICAL TRADITIONS

NATIONAL MUSEUM

DHELI

17 APRIL-17 MAY

2015

Banam with motor carriage and human figures
 Verrier Elwin Collection, 1964
 Wood, 81 x 3 x 13 cm
 National Museum, New Delhi
 Image courtesy National Museum, New Delhi

The images on the banam are often inspired by the objects observed. This banam is from the Verrier Elwin collection.

Event Description

 

This exhibition is a collaboration between National Museum, New Delhi and Museum Rietberg, Zurich, along with Crafts Museum, New Delhi and Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Bhopal.

What: Exhibition: Cadence and Counterpoint: Documenting Santal Musical Traditions

Curated by:

Dr Ruchira Ghose, Crafts Museum, New Delhi

Dr Marie Eve Celio Scheurer, Museum Rietberg, Zurich

Dr Johannes Beltz, Museum Rietberg, Zurich

 

Date: 16 April – 17 May 2015

Where: Special Exhibition Hall 2, National Museum, Janpath, New Delhi 110 011

Time: 10:00 am to 5:00 pm (Monday and public holidays closed)

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Santal Art

Recent Bibliography

Klangkoerper Saiteninstrumente

Museum Rietberg

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PARIS TRIBAL

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INDIAN HERITAGE

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SALON ART+DESIGN Lucas Ratton Arts Primitifs New York

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Orissa/Odhisa Lanka Podi Jatra masks. Photo credit http://lankapodijatra.blogspot.com/

2008 – 2016

no.838

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THE SALON ART+DESIGN

LUCAS RATTON

ARTS PRIMITIFS

November 13th-17th

LUCAS RATTON

will be exhibiting at the salon:

ART+DESIGN

PARK AVENUE ARMONY

643 PARK AVENUE & 67th street

New York

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MASK OF THE DAY

Bison-horn Maria masked dancers at Surnar, Dantewara Tashil, Bastar

 

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FINE SCULPTURE FROM THREE CONTINENTS AFRICA, ASIA & AUSTRALIA New York Pace Primitive

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GALLERY

NEW YORK

FINE SCULPTURE

FROM THREE CONTINENTS

AFRICA, ASIA & AUSTRALIA

NOVEMBER 7- DECEMBER 12, 2014

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MASK OF THE DAY

Muria jester called the “Nakta” wearing a mask at the Chherta festival. The mask is made for a gourd, with nose of beeswax, teeth of gourd-seeds and a turban of red cloth.

 

Photo Elwin Verrier

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BRUCE FRANK PRIMITIVE ART 2014 MATA NEW YORK

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November 7, 2014

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BRUCE FRANK PRIMITIVE ART

NOVEMBER 8-11 2014

ARADER GALLERIES

1016 MADISON AVENUE

NEW YORK CITY NY

11075 

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MASK OF THE DAY

Mask used by the Murias in the Chherta and Pus Kolang dances. It is carved from “trewia mudiflora” wood; the teeth and eyes are of bell-metal; the head and chin are covered with bear’s hair. The nostrils are hollow and the ears are pierced for ornaments Height : 32cm. Berma, Kondagaon Tashil, Bastar.

Photo Elwin Verrier

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MATA

MADISON ANCIENT AND TRIBAL ART

2014

Photo Credit of James Nova New York

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 OPENS TOMORROW

November 8, at 11 am.

SECOND and THRID floors of the

ARADER GALLERIES

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Saturday, November 8th, 5pm – 8pm

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RSVP: mata@matanyc.com

 

MATA members:
Marc Assayag

Bruce Frank Primitive Art

Galerie Patrick & Ondine Mestdagh
 Michael Oliver
Michael Rhodes

James Stephenson African Art
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 MATA members also exhibiting
Arte Primitivo: 3 E. 65th St.
Pace Primive  : 32 E. 57th St.
Tim Hunt / Hunt Fine Arts: 16 E. 73rd St. 3R

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MASK OF THE DAY

Kuttia Kond priests, Litu and Porna, sacrifice of a fowl above masks representing human skulls wich are placed in front of the stone symbols of the Earth Mother to whom human sacrifice was formerly offered. Surangbaro, Ganjam District, Orissa

Photo Elwin Verrier

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Tibet exploration expedition The great plateau Central Tibet Gartok

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THE GREAT PLATEAU

Being an Account of Exploration in Central Tibet, 1903, and of the Gartok expedition, 1904-1905

C.G. RAWLING

LONDON

1905

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A Soldier of Rudok

Gurkha Orderlies and an Interpreter

Men of Rudok

Servant Soldier Merchant Ponyman

A Religious Mendicant

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MASK OF THE DAY

BAIGA PICTOGRAPHIC MASK FROM

PANDPUR, MANDLA DISTRICT

SHOREA ARBUSTA WOOD

decorated with red and black designs on a while background

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Tribal myths of Orissa Specimens of the oral literature of middle India Verrier Elwin Oxford University Press 1954

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Tribal myths of Orissa

 

Specimens of the oral literature of middle India

 

Verrier Elwin

 

Oxford University Press

 

1954

 

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