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1. Photo 1000/66(5754)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/66(5754)
Title:
Two musicians playing a duet with tabla and tambura, Bengal. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Studio portrait of two mucisians, one playing a drum (the saringhi tabla), the other a stringed instrument (the tambura, but apparently here confused with the mandira).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 1000/66(5755)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/66(5755)
Title:
Musicians with khole, kartal and singeh, Bengal. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of three musicians, posed in front of a European building, with a khole (type of drum), kartala (small cymbals) and singeh (curved horn).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 1000/66(5756)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/66(5756)
Title:
Musical quintet, Bengal. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group with instruments seated in front of the same building seen in print 5755. The instruments are identified as two types of drum (nagara and damama), a cymbal-like instrument (kartala), and two types of oboe-like wind instruments (sahanai).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 1000/66(5757)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/66(5757)
Title:
Musical quintet, Bengal. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of musicians (the same figures seen in print 5756, and posed in front of the same building), with instruments. These are identified as a small pair of drums (tabla), three oboe-like instruments (sahanai) and small cymbals (manjira).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 1000/66(5758)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/66(5758)
Title:
Musical octet, Bengal. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group posed in front of house also seen in prints 5755-5757. The instruments seen are identified as drums (dhaka, dhole, kara, jaya jhampa, nagara and Tashar), and the oboe-like sahanai.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

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