Non-photographic: Gouache by an Amritsar artist depicting the preparation and consumption of Indian hemp (bhang).
Scope & Content:
With descriptive notes attached. The paintings accompanied samples of the narcotics illustrated, and were made for display at an unidentified exhibition. See Mildred Archer, 'Company drawings in the India Office Library' (HMSO, London, 1972), p. 226, catalogue ref. 188 (ii).
Non-photographic: Gouache by an Amritsar artist depicting the smoking of Charras, a type of Indian hemp imported into northern India from Eastern Turkestan.
Scope & Content:
With descriptive notes attached. The paintings accompanied samples of the narcotics illustrated, and were made for display at an unidentified exhibition. See Mildred Archer, 'Company drawings in the India Office Library' (HMSO, London, 1972), p. 226, catalogue ref. 188 (i).
Non-photographic: Gouache by an Amritsar artist depicting the smoking of tobacco in various forms of pipe - nargila, huqqa, gurguri and pechwan.
Scope & Content:
With descriptive notes attached. The paintings accompanied samples of the narcotics illustrated, and were made for display at an unidentified exhibition. See Mildred Archer, 'Company drawings in the India Office Library' (HMSO, London, 1972), p. 226, catalogue ref. 188 (iv).
Posed group, with figure in foreground playing pipes. These figures appear to be part of the same group also seen in print 4773, and there described as snake charmers. A very lightly-printed salt print, crudely hand-coloured.