Fakeers [Delhi]. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:
Signed and numbered Shepherd & Robertson Photo: 1127 in the negative. Portrait of two ascetics, one standing, one seated cross-legged. Photograph listed in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue as 'Udasees (Fakeers).'
[Pundits and Mussulmans, Srinagar.] Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Numbered 604 in the negative. Kashmir was visited by the compiler of this album between 3 April and 30 November 1878. Full-length portrait of four men, posed in the open air against a cloth backdrop. Listed in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue as 'Pundits and Mussulmans.'
Full-length portrait of a Tibetan lama, holding prayer beads, posed against a cloth backdrop and leaning against a stand draped with textiles. This appears to be no. 1132A in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue, 'A Thibetian Llama from Lassa.'
Full-length studio portrait of a group of priests, with a table in the centre on which stand religious articles and a miniature statue of Buddha. With contemporary descriptive printed label: 'No. 42-Priests. And here are the priests. Dirty, ignorant, lazy rascals, without exception; but in China...