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H-ASIA March 16, 2011 Searching for Keralan and Kanarese ethnographic material (response) ************************************************************************ From: Sumit Guha <sguha@history.rutgers.edu> Dear colleagues, with respect to museums with ethnographic collections from what I guess is the region from Goa Southwards to Kerala - Goa is probably a place to seek out private and possibly institutional collections. In Pune(Maharashtra) there is a fine collection of Western Indian objects of everyday use in upper-class households of the 18th to early 19th century. This is the Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum, 1378 Shukrawar Peth, Pune 411002. They have produced several fine illustrated brochures devoted to different themes - for example, paan (betel) preparation equipment etc. For a somewhat earlier period, there is an ethnographic album produced in Goa probably early 17th century that was first located in the Casenatense archive, Rome and described by Georg Schurhammer Orientalia-II: Gesammelte Studien Rome: Institutem Historicum Societate Iesu 1963 “Desenhos Orientais do Tempo de S. Francisco Xavier” pp.111-120. It was later edited and printed by Luis de Matos _Imagens do Oriente no seculo XVI_ Lisboa: Imprensa nacional Casa da Moeda 1985. It include representations of the peoples along the coast of the Indian ocean from the Red Sea south-eastward. This contains some intriguing images of everyday life and household and work implements. Of course, one needs to 'read' it cautiously - but then one also needs to read museum objects cautiously, as Walter Benjamin pointed out long ago. Sumit Guha Rutgers University ************************************************************************ To post to H-ASIA simply send your message to: <H-ASIA@h-net.msu.edu> For holidays or short absences send post to: <listserv@h-net.msu.edu> with message: SET H-ASIA NOMAIL Upon return, send post with message SET H-ASIA MAIL H-ASIA WEB HOMEPAGE URL: http://h-net.msu.edu/~asia/
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