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391. L.R.298.b.2, 1(11)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 1(11)
Title:
Story-telling — Apache. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography View of a group of six Apache on a rocky hillside, four posed in a semi-circle on the ground in the centre, with two mounted on horseback at left: 'A story-telling group, particularly typical of these people. The Apache often sit about and exchange stories of the pas...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1903
Extent:
1 item

392. L.R.298.b.2, 1(39)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 1(39)
Title:
Alhkidóhihi — Navaho. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
View of a Navaho sand painting: 'One of the four elaborate dry-paintings or sand altars employed in the rites of the Mountain Chant, a Navaho medicine ceremony of nine days' duration.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1907
Extent:
1 item

393. L.R.298.b.2, 2(43)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 2(43)
Title:
The burden-bearer — Pima. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography View of a Pima woman carrying a basket on her back, seen from the rear in a desert landscape in Arizona: 'This illustration shows the typical burden basket of the several Piman tribes of southern Arizona, called kího in the Piman language. Their mythology relates tha...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1907
Extent:
1 item

394. L.R.298.b.2, 3(83)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 3(83)
Title:
The Sun Dancer. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of a sun dancer of the Teton Sioux: 'As they dance, the performers never leave the spot on which they stand, the movement consisting in a slight upward spring from the toes and ball of the foot; legs and body are rigid. Always the right palm is extended to t...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1907
Extent:
1 item

395. L.R.404.k.10(14)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.404.k.10(14)
Title:
A tea-house restaurant in Kyoto. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Showing a group of women seated at tea on the verandah of the tea-house.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

396. L.R.404.k.10(38)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.404.k.10(38)
Title:
Receiving a guest. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Interior view of a room, with two Japanese ladies bowing to the ground to each other.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

397. L.R.420.c.10(17)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.420.c.10(17)
Title:
The mid-day meal [Beijing]. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) View of labourers eating their mid-day meal at the roadside.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 item

398. Maps 15.d.21(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Maps 15.d.21(2)
Title:
Gruppe des Piknik zu Ehren des Abgangs der Karawane S.M. des Königs von Preussen nach Bornu [Picnic at Tripoli to celebrate the departure of the King of Prussia's caravan to Bornu]. Photographer: Salingré, Emil
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Picnic group taken just before the start of Rohlf's expedition. The explorer Gustav Nachtigal (1834-1885) is seated (wearing a fez) third from the left. Gerhard Rohlfs stands in the centre of the group.
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
15 Feb 1869
Extent:
1 item

399. Maps C.21.f.12(303)

Reference (shelfmark):
Maps C.21.f.12(303)
Title:
Baptism of 130 Indians of the Shebit Nation, at St George by the Mormons. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Showing a Mormon minister standing in the water with an Indian man, and with a large group of Indians gathered on the bank behind. Stereo half, arched top.
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

400. Mss Eur D1004/2(12)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur D1004/2(12)
Title:
The view from the Fort, garden party, Delhi Durbar, Dec 1911. Photographer: Bremner, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Inscription: With photographer's blindstamp. Genre: Historical Events View looking over the crowds at the party: 'This was the view seen by the King and Queen who sat on thrones on the top of the fort wall. Over 1 million people were there.'
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Dec 1911
Extent:
1 item

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