Inhabitant of the Garo Hills, Assam, in war-dress.
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Inhabitant of the Garo Hills, Assam, in war-dress. Inscribed: ‘A Mountaineer.’ Note: This appears to be a copy of the engraving by John Alefounder reproduced in J. Eliot, ‘Observations on the inhabitants of the Garrow Hills made during a Publick Deputation in the Years 1788 and 1789’, ‘Asiatic...
Man and woman of the rice-pounder caste, chiefly found in the coastal areas of Travancore; the man with a mattock, standing by a rice pounder; the woman with baskets and coconuts. Inscribed: ‘Cudumbee. Cudumbuchee.’