Principal Consultant John Emigh
ConceptKapila Vatsyayan
Member Secretary Jyotindra Jain
Project Coordinator Neena Ranjan
Support for database Usha Malik, Dadi D. Pudumjee
Project Leader – Multimedia Pratapanand Jha
Software Development Rahul Kumar, Vadala Radha
Graphic Design Veerpal Singh, Yatish Jain
Technical Support Ashutosh Kumar, G. Chamundeeswaran
Audio/Video Purnendu Bhattacharya, Basharat Ahmed, Gautam Chatterjee and team
Multimedia Team Sunil Jairath, Om Prakash, Alfred Joy, Pravin Kumar, Rohit Mittal, Jatin Gandhi, Umesh Kumar Batra, Amarnath Mishra, Nisha Gandhi, Manisha Pathania, Renu Naithani, Fayaz Ahmed
Collection and Accessioning MasksKrishna Dutt, Kakoli Roy Biswas, Bhowmik,Chhabi Sen
Photography D.N.V.S. Seetharamaiah, Sarabjeet Singh, Sunil Kumar Meena, Gautam Dalal
Administrative Support Anurag Rohatgi, Urmila Uppal, Geeta Manchanda, Vijaypal, Rammehar Singh Nain, Prem Prakash, Hakam Singh Bhati, Balwan Singh, Jai Bhagwan
IGNCA is grateful for the following scholars/individuals who generously gifted following masks to the IGNCA’s collection.
Suresh Awasthi Korea
Balz Baechi Switzerland
Tan Chung China
Wolfgang Von Ereffa Germany
Fausto M. Godoy Brazil
Stephan Inglis Canada
Michael Meschke Sweden
Bappa and Anu Ray South Africa
Rev. Dobum Tulku Korea
Alfred Wuerfel Germany

IGNCA is indebted to Ford Foundation for the generous grant, particularly to David Arnold and Rekha Kapoor, which enabled IGNCA to acquire masks from Brazil, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Slovenia, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Taiwan and Thailand.


A large number of persons and institutes have assisted IGNCA in identifying and acquiring masks, books, and reprographic material. IGNCA is grateful to them all.

A.L.S. Ambegoda, Radha Banerjee, Ninagoran Bouah, Gwenda Chongue, C.T. Dorji, John Emigh, H.S.C. Fancy, Eberhard Fischer, M.H.Goonatilleka, Bharat Gupt, Ganesh Man, Gurung, Michael Meschke, Sumio Morijiri, Umabe N. Onyajekwe, Jay Stewerd, M.L. Pangsawad Suksawd, J. Tilakasiri, Andrew T. Tsubaki, S.K. Uppal, Bandhu Wijesooriya

 

IGNCA acknowledges the assistance of the following foreign Embassies and Ministries in transporting acquired masks from their countries.

Embassy of Germany
Embassy of Mexico
Embassy of Sweden
Embassy of Switzerland
Shri W.D.W. Abeyawardana, Department of Cultural Affairs, Government of Sri Lanka
Many Ministries of Government of India, Indian Embassies and High Commissions have given their precious time to identify sources from where masks have been acquired, and helped in shipping them. IGNCA is thankful for their generous help.

 

Ministries

Ministry of External Affairs, Africa Desk: C.M. Bhandari, Ravi Bander, Francis Vaz.
Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of Culture: Rajiv Yadav.
Ministry of Science and Technology, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research: R.V.S.P. Rao.
Ministry of Finance, Central Board of Excise and Custom: P.R.Y. Ramanan
Indian Missions Abroad.
Ghana: R.O. Wallang, Deputy High Commissioner; N.G.Vasantha Kumar, Head of Chancery
Ivory Coase: H.H.S. Viswanathan, Ambassador; Atish Sinha, Deputy Chief of Mission; Akhilesh Mishra.
First Secretary (Culture) and Head of Chancery.
Nigeria: S.K.Uppal, High Commissioner; B.Prasd, First Secretary.
Seychelles: P. Mukhopadhyay, High commissioner.
South Korea: Deepak Ray, Councellor.
Zambia: Rinzing Wangdi, High commissioner; S. Bhattacharjee, First Secretary;
H.V.S.Manral, Counsellor; A.K. Sinha, first Secretary
Zimbabwe: Pavel J. Jiengdoh, Deputy High commissioner.
IGNCA acknowledges with grateful thanks some masks loaned to the exhibition by:
Marionetteatem Museum, Stockholm; Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi

 

Images and Video

John Emigh, USA
Edimedia, Paris
Michel Huet, USA
Cristina Garcia Rodero, USA
Michael Holford, England
Barry McWayne, USA
National Geographic
Swiss National Tourist Organisation, USA
Akademische Druck-und Verlagsanstalt, Austria
Jean Vertut, Issy-Les-Moulineaux, France
Abbe H Beruil
Leroi-Gourhan
Laurence Marshall, USA
National Collection of Fine Arts, USA
Museum of American Indian/Heye Foundation, USA
New York Public Library, USA
Smithsonian Institution, USA
M. Djordjevic, USA
David Neel
Marcia C. Bol, USA
Kazuhiro Tsuruta
Peter McFarren, Bolivia
Robert Baunmuller, Germany
Kondansha International Ltd., Japan
K. Kitamura
Peter McNair
Michel Monteaux
British Museum
Museo Nacional de Antropologia, Mexico
Frank Willett, USA
Brenda Clay, USA
Braumuller
Mario Fantin, Italy
Michel Monteaux, USA
Historical Pictures Service, USA
Hoikusha Publishing Company, Japan
Martin von Wagner Museum, Germany
Erminio Pinque
Alex Orloff
Sixto Choque
Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples