medium format slide(colour)
- Museum number
- 2014,3004.273
- Description
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Medium format slide (colour); 6x6; the sadhu, Bhagwan Giri smokes a chilam. He wears several malas: one sphatik and a rudraksh. Around his jata-knot he has tied a red dhvaja-like cloth. On his forehead is the Shaiva tilak of three horizontal lines of ash, with an orange bindu dot in the centre. His embroidered jholi is hanging on his left shoulder.
- Production date
- 1992 (07 Apr 1992)
- 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
- Bhagwan Giri lives in a little shrine built around a Shiva tree (hence the name Pipaleshwar), near the Railway Station in Ujjain. Though a Shaiva, he takes care of this Hanuman shrine; but then, Hanuman is the son of Shiva.
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
- 2014,3004.273
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1513 (slide number)
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Miscellaneous number: 273 (slide serial number)