medium format slide(colour)
- Museum number
- 2014,3004.194
- Description
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Medium format slide (colour); 6x6; the saddhu, Puran Das stands in front of his hut, built against the wall of the Kilkaleshwar temple compound, on the banks of the Alaknanda river. He is dressed in red, and wears a single bead of tulsi (hira) on a thread around his neck. He has a red dot tilak.
He carries an aluminum kamandal in the right hand.
- Production date
- 1990 (05 May)
- Dimensions
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Height: 7 centimetres (with frame)
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Height: 5.50 centimetres (without frame)
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Width: 7 centimetres (with frame)
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Width: 5.50 centimetres (without frame)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Puran Das is a Ramanandi. Puran is to Purana, the Puranas, and means “complete”.
This slide is part of the Hartsuiker Archive of 1900 colour slides, consisting of 300 in 6x6 format and 1600 35mm slides. This archive documents Indian mendicants or Sadhus, mostly Hindu, but including some Jain practitioners, in the later 20th century in northern India. The images were taken by Dolf Hartsuiker over many years, from the 1970s onwards.
Hartsuiker rating: 4
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2014
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 2014,3004.194
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1374 (slide number)
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Miscellaneous number: 194 (slide serial number)