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032-003048417 Collection Area Visual Arts

11. Photo 124(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 124(6)
Title:
Darwesh (Chishtia), Eastern Bengal. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Portrait of a religious mendicant from Bangladesh by an unknown photographer, early 1860s. It shows a dervish of the Sufi Chishti order. Sufis are devotees of the mystical branch of Islam. In this case the man is a follower of the Indian saint Muin-u'd-din Chishti, whose shrine in Ajmer remains ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

12. Photo 124(30)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 124(30)
Title:
Dom, Eastern Bengal. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Portrait of a Dom man taken by an unknown photographer in the early 1860s.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

13. Photo 124(64)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 124(64)
Title:
An idol shop. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
View of statuettes of Hindu deities arranged on shelves. Boy seated in foreground holding a statue. Possibly a Bourne & Shepherd photograph.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1890s
Extent:
1 item

14. Photo 124(60)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 124(60)
Title:
[Riverside scene, Eastern Bengal.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Family group in foreground, with houseboats moored along the riverside and a village in the background on the further bank.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

15. Photo 124(62)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 124(62)
Title:
[Riverside scene, Eastern Bengal.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
River scene with houseboats moored in the foreground and a village on the further bank. Probably taken in the same locality as print 60.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

16. Photo 124(14)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 124(14)
Title:
Kayasth, Eastern Bengal. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Portrait taken in the early 1860s of a Kayasth, a member of the Hindu writer caste of northern India.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

17. Photo 124(13)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 124(13)
Title:
Kulin Brahman, Eastern Bengal. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Half-length portrait against a plain background. A noted colony of Kulin Brahmins was based at Lakshmipasa, in the Jessore District of Bangladesh, taken by an unknown photographer in the early 1860s.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

18. Photo 124(17)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 124(17)
Title:
Kara Goala, Eastern Bengal. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
This photograph is a three-quarter length portrait of a Goala or member of the Muslim cowherding class taken by an unknown photographer in the early 1860s.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

19. Photo 124(56)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 124(56)
Title:
Sarnakais (goldsmiths), Eastern Bengal. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
This print shows a group of three goldsmiths posed with the tools of their trade taken by an unknown photographer in the early 1860s.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

20. Photo 124(58)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 124(58)
Title:
Sankhari, shell-cutters, Eastern Bengal. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Portrait of five Sankhari, members of the Hindu Sudra caste of shell-cutters, taken by an unknown photographer during the early 1860s. Contemporary accounts relate that such Sankharis were generally followers of the Hindu gods Vishnu or Krishna and usually vegetarian. The shells used for manufac...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item