ETHNOFLORENCE
INDIAN AND HIMALAYAN FOLK AND
TRIBAL ARTS
AN INTERDISCIPLINARY POINT OF VIEW
April 18, 2013
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Vintage Postcards and Early Bibliography
A selected Iconography
(I)
Bagcham Mask Dances
in Choero Temple
1958
Tukche Mustang Dhaurlagiri zone
Nepal
Photo Ethnoflorence – Ethnoflorence Photo Archives Collection
Photographer
Takayama Ryuzo
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(II)
BOOK OF THE WEEK
WESTERN TIBET AND THE BRITISH
BORDERLAND
THE SACRED COUNTRY OF
HINDUS AND BUDDHIST
by
Charles A. Sherring
London
Edward Arnold
1906
Tibetan Masked Dancers
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Tibetan Dancers wearing Masks
Banging cymbals
Drum beaten by stick like a reaping hook
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Tibetan Dancers
This party had visited India during the previous cold weather
Note the drum and the mask in foreground
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Bhotia Women
The Chum or Rani, wife of the three brothers
A Tibetan wedding: The Bride
A Tibetan: The Bridegroom
TIBETAN CHARM, JUG, AND BELL
Silver casket with charm worn on the person
Jug for pouring water into the small bowls which are placed on altars in front of the idols – Bell with thunderbolt handle (dorje) commonly used by lamas in all temples. Note the face on the handles
Silver charm-casket with turquoise centre, worn on person
Turquoise ear-rings worn by women
Silver chatelaine worn by women on the bosom : from left : ear- spoon, tooth-pick, brush for cleaning jewellery, flat instrument cleaner,
thorn-extractor, useful for spreading medicine, etc , tweezers for pulling
out hairs on the face. Turquoise is the lucky colour and keeps off
the evil eye
Jugs for filling water into bowls which stand on the altars in front of the
idols – Bells with thunderbolt handles (dorje) used by lamas in the temples
Sauce-pan for pouring melted butter into bowls in which lights burn on the
altars – Table with folding flaps Trumpets made of human thigh-bones used by lamas in their rites : it has been said that those of criminals are preferred, but those in the picture belonged to holy men, and similarly the human skulls represented elsewhere
From the left : Bowl used for drinking tea – Pipe with jade mouthpiece for smoking tobacco : the Tibetan tobacco is exactly like chopped chaff
Purse – Bowl for drinking : in it are Tibetan coins
Table for domestic use – Purse – Bag
Pipe with onyx mouthpiece – Purse : in the centre hangs a needle-case
Purse with flint, steel and tinder (matches are not common, though known
and immensely appreciated) – Bag – Churn and piston-rod for making tea and mixing in it butter, salt and flour
Thunderbolts (dorje) used to expel demons by all lamas in temples, &c. The
dorje is gripped with finger and thumb in the centre and turned backwards
and forwards, while a bell is rung with the other hand
Stone engraved with “Om Mani Padme Hung ”
Spoons and ladles used in domestic life, the right one is of brass and the left of silver, with a turquoise in the centre : the lower ones are of brass and
copper
Velvet boots worn by ladies of position, made in Lhasa
Ordinary table used in domestic life Swans’ eggs from the Mansarowar Lake : these are sacred : it is forbidden to take these eggs from the sacred lakes – Wooden bowl made by the Rajis or wild men of Askot (Kumaon)
Stone engraved with “ Om mani padme hung ” : such stones are thrown in
tf thousands on to heaps – Prayer-wheels with chain and knob to assist the revolutions – Thunderbolts (dorje) for expelling demons – Ling-shaped mud image with Shiva’s trident (trisul) and streamer – Table for domestic use
Bowls made of human skulls in which water or blood is offered and
sometimes drunk
4 DOKPA WOMAN
She is wearing a robe lined with fur inside and covered with leather
outside : her charge for being photographed was fourpence
MUD IMAGES OF THE GODS, FOUND IN THOUSANDS IN THE CAVES
Made by means of stamps : they each contain grains of corn (which sometimes sprout) to indicate the immortal hope
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(III)
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
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SHIKALI JATRA FESTIVAL
KHOANA VILLAGE
NEPAL
Nepalese Hindu devotees dressed as gods and goddesses prepare to participate in festvities at The Shikali
Temple in the village of Khokana on the outskirts of Kathmandu on October 2, 2011, during celebrations for
The Shikali Jatra festival. Local villagers, who normally do not celebrate the country’s most famous festival
of Dashain or Dushera, celebrate the Shikali Jatra each year.”
(credit http://www.news24.com/ http://www.smh.com.au./)
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(IV)
KERALA FOLKLORE AND THEATRE MUSEUM
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(V)
Hanumana Podi
is a popular
festival
observed in the Sonepur district.
(http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hanumana_Podi_Sonepur_Subarnapur_Odisha.jpg)
Childrens participate to observe it with clay idols of Lord Hanumana and this festival is related to the popular legend of “Lanka dahana” (Burning of Lanka) by Hanumana by his burning tail.
Podi Hanumana protective image on a rooftop after festival.
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(VI)
FURER HAIMENDORF ARCHIVE
WEEKLY SELECTION
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Bhotia man
Wearing his hair bound up
Yakba, Humla district, Nepal 1972
Catalogue reference: PPMS19_6_TIB_0624
Copyright SOAS Nicholas Haimendorf
SOAS Library PPMS19_6_TIB_0624
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Litakot, Tila valley, Jumla district, Nepal
1966
Copyright SOAS Nicholas Haimendorf
SOAS Library PPMS19_6_TIB_0165
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Jumla – Kalikot, Jumla district, Nepal
1972
Copyright SOAS Nicholas Haimendorf
SOAS Library PPMS19_6_TIB_0779
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