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1. Photo 11(91)

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Photo 11(91)
Title:
Monuments of Sutteeism in the Kangra Valley. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
View of stone sati memorials under a tree in the Kangra valley, taken by Samuel Bourne in the 1860s. Sati or the custom of a widow immolating herself on her husband’s funeral pyre was practiced by some Hindus, particularly the Rajputs. Sati slabs were placed in memory of the women who committed ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1864
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 20(28)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 20(28)
Title:
Devil dancers—Tongsa Jong [Bhutan]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of a group of costumed dancers and musicians gathered in a courtyard in the dzong at Tongsa. The photograph was also used in The National Geographic Magazine (Apr 1914, p. 439), with the following caption: 'A group of masked dancers—Tongsa-Jo...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1905
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 29(33)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 29(33)
Title:
Rustic life in Bengal. Native bazaar. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1730 in the negative. A print from Bourne's Rustic scenes and village life in Bengal series, photographed in the Calcutta area. A view looking along a village street, lined on either side with open-sided huts selling produce of various sorts. A European f...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1867
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 29(34)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 29(34)
Title:
Rustic scene in Bengal. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1731 in the negative. From Bourne's Rustic scenes and village life in Bengal series, photographed in the Calcutta area. a view looking across a palm-fringed tank towards the brick and thatch houses of a village.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1867
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 29(35)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 29(35)
Title:
Village life in Bengal. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1732 in the negative. From Bourne's Rustic scenes and village life in Bengal series, photographed in the Calcutta area. View from the road of a village, with figures seated among the huts and a bullock cart in the foreground.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1867
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 29(36)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 29(36)
Title:
Dhobee's House and tank. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1733 in the negative. From Bourne's Rustic scenes and village life in Bengal series, photograped in the Calcutta area. View looking across the village tank towards a group of washermen and women, with a substantial mud and thatch hut beyond.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1867
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 29(37)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 29(37)
Title:
Village and Tank. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1734 in the negative. From Bourne's Rustic scenes and village life in Bengal series, photographed in the Calcutta area. View looking across a village tank towards thatched huts, with palm trees beyond.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1867
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 29(38)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 29(38)
Title:
Rural scene in Bengal. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1735 in the negative. From Bourne's Rustic scenes and village life in Bengal series. View looking across the village tank towards thatched huts, the whole set among palm trees and with two Indian figures and a cow in the foreground.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1867
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 29(39)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 29(39)
Title:
Roadside view near Garden Reach [Calcutta]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1736 in the negative. From Bourne's Rustic scenes and village life in Bengal series, photographed in the Calcutta area. View looking along and unsurfaced road towards the thatched huts of a village, with a tank on the left and a group of Indian figures po...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1867
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 29(40)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 29(40)
Title:
Road scene in Bengal. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1737 in the negative. From Bourne's Rustic scenes and village life in Bengal series, photographed in the Calcutta area. View looking along an unsurfaced road, with thatched village huts on either side. Possibly taken in the same area of South Calcutta (Ga...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1867
Extent:
1 item