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Your support for our journalism is invaluable. Unthinking substitution of Santhal musical instruments by other instruments often leads to stark musical incompatibility,” says Jayasri Banerjee, a sitar player and a musicologist who has undertaken extensive fieldwork, documentation and advocacy of endangered musical genres. Madol or tumdak double-sided barrel drum *, Photos: Boro Baski, Museum of Santal Culture; photo credit: Ludwig Pesch © 2012, Information on these and other music instruments provided by the Wesanthals E-Group. Both heads the left one broader than the right are covered by bullock hide and are beaten by the left and right hand.

Tip | How many ‘Scheduled Tribes’ are there in India? Santhal, ethnic group of eastern India, numbering well over five million at the turn of the 21st century. Now days people wear the sarees and dhotis whatever available in market.

We just wanted to cover the subject in its entirety and correctly,” explains Ghosh. At this difficult time, it becomes even more important that we have access to information that has a bearing on our health and well-being, our lives, and livelihoods. A collaboration between the National Museum, Crafts Museum (Delhi), Museum Reitberg (Zurich, Switzerland) and Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya (Bhopal), the show has been curated by Ruchira Ghosh, Mushtak Khan, Krittika Narula, Marie-Eve Celio-Scheurer and Johannes Beltz.

It has helped us keep apace with events and happenings. Then try these steps: (1) switch from “Reader” to regular viewing; (2) in your browser’s Security settings select “Enable JavaScript”; (3) check Google support for browsers and devices. The Santhal tribe of Bengal are known for their intriguing Santhal dance.

Source: Santali people – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, Address : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SantalDate Visited: Thu Jun 21 2012 22:46:30 GMT+0200 (CEST), Jhumur refers to a type of song and dance of the Santals [of Burdwan-Birbhum district, West Bengal], who are among the earliest native peoples of the subcontinent, now living in various linguistic regions. Tamak: is a bowl shaped kettle drum.

The santhals have their own clothing and distinctive draping styles. The Tamak has a hemispherical shape, with a wider circumference and played by two drum sticks. Some of the finest music and art traditions originated in this tribe and went on to influence people like Pannalal Ghosh and Kazi Nazrul Islam. The Tumda is a double headed drum having the shape of a frustum, the drum skins at left and right are made of animal skins. Jhumur songs consequently vary in language but have similar musical features.

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“Cadence and Counterpoint: Documenting Santhal Musical Traditions”, an ongoing exhibition at National Museum on Santhal music and traditions, turns out be a dense exercise probing the issue. Three highlights of the exhibition are banam — a bowed monochord and the only Santhal instrument to be categorised as a chordophone, tamak, a cup-shaped drum made with an iron shell and buffalo skin, worn around the neck using a leather strap and played with two sticks and chadar badar, the community’s unique puppetry tradition. For reasons best known to the, the Ministry of Textiles, didn’t sanction the exhibition.

The museum then approached the Crafts Museum,” says Ruchira Ghosh, who was at the time heading the museum in the capacity of Director. I then went to National Museum and it turned out they had a beautiful Verrier Elwin collection.

The waisted belly is completely covered by animal skin.

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