A view from Munster's Cosmographia, printed in Basel, 1572 (p.1088)
Source: ebay, Aug. 2002
An illustration of hook-swinging from 'La Porte ouverte, pour parvenir à la connoissance du paganisme caché', by Abraham Roger, Amsterdam, 1670
Source:
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/search/LotDetail.asp?sid=&intObjectID=4415467&SE=CMWCAT04+37366+585380378+&QR=M+1+15+Aqc0000900+33681++Aqc0000900+&entry=india&SU=1&RQ=False&AN=16
(downloaded Dec. 2004)
*View of the Churruck Poojah on the banks of the Ganges by James Moffat, c.1806* (BL)
"A Species of Penance Practised at the Festival of Goddess Bhavani," from 'The World in Miniature: Hindoostan' by Frederick Shoberl, London, 1820's
Source: ebay, Feb. 2005
Fanny Parkes included a depiction of hook-swinging in her 'Wanderings of a Pilgrim in search of the picturesque...', London, 1850 (BL)
"A Swinging Festival in India," from the Illustrated London News, 1857; and very large scans of the *left half* and the *right half* of the engraving
Source: ebay, Oct. 2006
"The Churuk (Charuk) Puja, or Swinging Festival" a steel engraving from 'History of India' (James S. Virtue Co., London, 1858)
Source: ebay, Sept. 2005
Hook-swinging in Calcutta, spring 2008
Source: New York Times, April 14, 2008
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