AR-027 Naraikadu Collections
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Item BiodiversityAR-027-00073 nos: (a) 20.0 x 20.5 (butterfly on branch + torn notes from logbook @ back); (b) 12.0 x 10.0 (butterfly + “pg.33” text @ the back); (c) 7.0 x 12.0 irregular size (leaf insect + ”p.229 FN” text @ the back)Item ExpeditionsAR-027-00064 nos: (a) 43.4 x 25.7 (A3 size 'expedition to ramparts') front only-colour pencil; (b) 20.8 x 26.0 ('page1"@front+"page2"@back) water colour; (c) 19.8 x 25.3 ('a Saturday’s climb') front only-stuck on cardboard; (d) 18.4 x 18.8 (colour pencil with pen outline + notes from logbook @ the back)-climbing fortifications?-both sidesItem Daily life and ecosystemAR-027-0005"22 nos: (a) 3 nos all front only-stuck on black cardboard: 17.8 x 16.1 (swimming-bottom left pencil mark “93”); 17.8 x 14.8 (gathering sticks); 25.1 x 17.6 (diving in) (b) 7 nos all front only-stuck on cardboard, colour pencil sketches signed ""Tara"": 9.8 x 12.5 (artist with book); 14.9 x 22.8 (3 women and trees); 14.9 x 22.6 (monkeys in trees); 22.9 x 14.7 (women crossing river using rope bridge); 22.7 x 14.8 (""premalu sittie-I will draw a sketch of you all""); 22.8 x 16.8 (""watching 'love light' from jewel house""); 22.8 x 14.7 (""Piria Sittie on her way to the bath..."") (c) 4 nos all front only-stuck on cardboard, watercolour and pen outline: 16.1 x 24.2 (""blowing the fire"" + ""four monkeys visit..); 16..2 x 12.8 (""watching ants""); 16.2 x 12.6 (""the left 'eye'""); 16.1 x 12.5 (""a star-gazing supper"") (d) 5 nos all stuck on black cardboard framing the sketches - one, watercolour, rest colour pencils: 29.8 x 20.8 (girls, fire, pot); 29.3 x 20.8 (washing blanket 1-""look at the painted...); 29.0 x 20.8 (washing blanket 2 - ""yes, the fire smoked very...""); 29.1 x 20.9 (washing blanket 3 - “they poked the heavy...""); 29.0 x 20.6 (washing blanket 4 - ""this is how they wrung..."") (e) 3 nos all front & back-watercolour, B&W: 17.6 x 23.4 (boys climbing trees, rocks+""Boys in Naraikadu...""text @ the back; 11.0 x 22.3 (B&W girl, trees+""swept by the flood...""text @ the back); 20.1 x 28.8 (multiple species+notes from logbook text @ the back)"Item Item Rounds and other songsAR-027-0003Softbound pamphlet (5/13), typed with overwriting, labeled 1/13 to 13/13. Currently, pamphlet nos. 2, 4, 5 and 8 are available and the rest are missing. The pamphlets appear to have been used in the classroom (whether in the school building or at Naraikadu) as teaching-learning aids. Based on a quick scan, each pamphlet seems to have 27 songs - few pages are missing in some copies. Singing these songs was a form of edu-tainment for the children. Round songs or canon are musical pieces sung by groups of people, turn by turn, each group starting at different times. Most of these songs are dedicated to particular birds, bird sounds and learning from nature. They were generally sung the last night at the Naraikadu retreat while seated around a bonfire as part of the institution’s traditions. We know that ‘Fragrance of the upland’ was composed by the founder Amy Carmichael in 1938. See AR-027-4-0-2. We have selected 5/13 for digitization. 2/13 appears identical to 5/13 but the first page (typewritten) is smudged so we are not scanning it. 8/13 and 4/13 are in fragile condition, showing water damage and fungal growth.