Kashmir was visited by the compiler of this album between 3 April and 30 November 1878. Portrait of three young women, seated in the open air with a tent in the background.
Kashmir nautch girls. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Numbered 607 in the negative. Kashmir was visited by the compiler of this album between 3 April and 30 November 1878. Group of dancing girls and musicians seated on a terrace, probably, like print 149, in the Shalimar Gardens at Srinagar. Listed in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue as 'Group of...
Kashmir was visited by the compiler of this album between 3 April and 30 November 1878. Circular image; full-length portrait of a woman reclining on cushions in the open air, a water pipe (partly cropped out of image) on the right.
Frith's Series blindstamp. Kashmir was visited by the compiler of this album between 3 April and 30 November 1878. Full-length standing studio portrait of a young woman, a water pipe standing beside her.
Kashmir was visited by the compiler of this album between 3 April and 30 November 1878. Circular image; full-length portrait of a young woman reclining on a cushion, a water pipe beside her.
[Natives of Ladakh dancing.] Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Numbered 938 in the negative. Kashmir and Ladakh were visited by compiler of this album between 3 April and 30 November 1878. Group of male dancers, posed in the open air in front of a large boulder. Listed in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue as 'Natives of Ladak dancing.'
Batavian Dancing Girl. Photographer: Woodbury and Page
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Full-length studio group portrait of a woman in costume, with musicians seated around her. This particular group played wayang topeng, one of the traditional varieties of Javanese theatre, in which the players performed roles while wearing topeng or masks made out of wood. Such groups usually d...
Numbered 614 in the negative. Studio portrait of two geishas, one kneeling playing a stringed instrument, the other dancing, with a fan held aloft in her right hand. The two are posed in front of backdrop painted with a traditional scene.