Bhubaneswar Museum

[Edward F]

Central east india state orrisa small place but some interesting things

Some pictures from museum

[Jens Nordlunde]

Hi Edward,
Thank you for the excellent, and very interesting pictures.
Did you know, that at Bhubaneshwar one of the earlies katars have been shown? I have written an article about it, and hope it will be published soon.
Jens

[Jens Nordlunde]

Do you have more pictures?
Jens

[Robert]

Hello Edward, I too would like to thank you for sharing these wonderful photos. While I do not believe that I have, I would also now like to take the time to say welcome to the forum.

Regards,
Robert

[Edward F]

Jens i do have some more pictures what are you looking for ?Itravel to india once a year so if i dont have it can get it.aug 2012 trip flew into new dehli main reason for my trip to see national museum IT WAS CLOSED THE ONE DAY I WAS IN DEHLI will try next year.
Thanks again

[ariel]

Do you have a pic of the museum plaques identifying and dating the swords?

I am particularly interested in the first pic, the patissas/khandas with the Old Indian handles ( not the basket ones).

[tribalarms]

Are the images from the Odisha State Museum? When I was there I could not find any weapons on display, but some exhibitions was being reorganized.

Did you also visit the tribal museum? They had some interesting tribal weapons on display but unfortunately photos was not allowed.

[Edward F]

plaque for first group of swords

Have not made it to tribal meusum yet.
yes state museum had to wait 1 hour after it opened to see the arms room the guy with the door key was missing.

Would you say that this is a tribal knife?

[Jens Nordlunde]

Hi Edward,
Any pictures from this or any other museums showing Indian weapons :).
Does the Bhubaneshwar museum have a catalogue, and if yes, do you have the e-mail address?
I know photographing in museums is not easy, but you have done very well.
Jens
PS. Should anyone be in doubt, Bhubaneshwar is in Orissa, a very ancient town.

[ariel]

Thanks for the pic of the plaque.
Unfortunately, Indian museums are not very detailed about their items. Everything is "17-18 century" and nothing else.

Their academic level leaves much to be desired. What a pity, they have at their disposal such a wealth of material, but nobody seems to pay attention.

[Edward F]

Hi jens
realy no other good pics,
They could not find the key to the room i dont think they have any email or printed info the weapons collection is small other items in museum 30 rifle/6 cannon/1 shield/2 patas over door.any weapon inparticular your looking for?



Great museum large collection of things just not alot of weapons

[tribalarms]

Yes, very interesting museum, and especially good sculpture collection. The sculpture exhibition was closed when I was there but they kindly let me in anyway.

Here is the Odisha / Orissa museum website:
http://orissamuseum.nic.in

Many museums in india allows photo for a small fee but unfortunately the tribal museum did not.

I might have some images from Delhi.