Worker preparing thread for sari weaving. Photographer: Narayen, Shivashanker
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Weaver crouching beside a spinning wheel, paying off thread to to a reel at the right. Photograph not credited, but probably one of the series of views of cotton manufacture shown by Shivashanker Narayen at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873.
Non-photographic: watercolour sketch by a Punjab artist of a weaver at Delhi.
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Shown at the Delhi Exhibition of 1872. See Mildred Archer, 'Company drawings in the India Office Library' (HMSO, London, 1972), p. 227, catalogue no. 189 (ii).
Non-photographic: Watercolour by a Bombay artist showing the process of weaving.
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Shown at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873. See Mildred Archer, 'Company drawings in the India Office Library' (HMSO, London, 1972), p. 248, catalogue no. 201 (ii).
Sari weaving, Western India. Photographer: Narayen, Shivashanker
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Man weaving with loom arranged on the verandah of a house. Photograph unsigned, but this is probably one of the series of views showing the processes of the manufacture of cotton fabrics shown at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873. See J. Forbes Watson, Vienna Unive...
