Women pounding and cleaning rice, Madras. Photographer: Nicholas and Curths
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Portrait of two women, one using a pestle and mortar holding a tray of rice. Photographer's name on mount. From the series of 'Photographs illustrating various native classes, occupations, &c....Native women pounding and cleaning rice' by Nicholas & Cur...
Women with curry stone and raggy mill, Madras. Photographer: Nicholas and Curths
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Showing two women, one crushing spices, the other grinding raggy (a grain cultivated as a staple in food in Southern India) between two millstones. Photographer's name on mount. From the series of 'Photographs illustrating various native classes, occupations, &...
Two women grinding grain in the yard of a house. Photographer: Hooper and Western
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography An elderly and a younger women seated at a grindstone, watched by a young boy. This is presumably one of the series of views by Hooper & Western which were shown first at the London Exhibition of 1871 and later at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873 (J. Forbes Wa...
