Group of Purriar Meenas, robber tribe of Rajasthan. Photographer: Eugene Clutterbuck Impey.
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Group of four men, posed in front of a thatched house, and armed with matchlocks, bows and other weapons. This print appears (in oval format) in vol. VII no. 341 of The People of India (8 vols., London, 1868-74), from which the caption is taken.
Studio portrait of Parbhu group, Bombay. Photographer: Hurrichund Chintamon.
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Studio portrait of fourteen Parbhu men and a child. All the men wear the characteristic turban. See note at print 4349. Print shown at the Paris Exhibition of 1867.
Studio portrait of Sonar group, Bombay. Photographer: Hurrichund Chintamon.
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Full-length portrait of an older, seated man, with a younger man and two boys standing on either side. All wear the distinctive flat, circular turban. Print shown at the Paris Exhibition of 1867.
Group portrait of representatives of the five hills tribes of the Nilgiris: Irulas, Badagas, Todas, Kotas, Kurumbas. Photographer: Unknown
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Group portrait, with two representatives from each of the fives tribes, posed in front of a tent with characteristic artefacts (weapons, musical instruments, etc). With measuring rod placed to one side.
Andamanese group with Mr Homfray, their keeper, photographed at Calcutta. Photographer: Saché and Westfield
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Portrait of seven Andamanese youths and Jeremiah Nelson Homfray, Superintendent of the Andamanese Orphanage. Oval image. The Andamanese were brought to Calcutta, where they were displayed to the members of the Asiatic Society, before being taken to the studio of Saché and Westfield, where they w...
Portrait of Sagramji, Thakur Sahib of Gondal, Kathiawar District. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
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Numbered 1726 in pencil on mount below print. Full-length seated portrait. The lithographed portrait of Sagrami in R. H. Jalbhoy, The portrait gallery of Western India (Bombay, 1886), plate 13, is based on this photograph. The statuette seen in prints 4375-4376, is also present in this portrait.