 He spent a lifetime collecting and studying art objects and handiwork from the remotest corners of undivided rural Bengal collecting items of folk art such as Kalighat paintings, "patuas"' scrolls, embroidered "kanthas", terracotta panels, stone sculptures, wooden carvings, dolls and toys, moulds used for making patterns on sweets or mango-paste etc.Gurusaday Dutt also wrote extensively on folk culture.Rabindranath Tagore and C.F.