Genre: Ethnographical Photography Three embroiderers seated at sewing frames. Probably an exhibition photograph, unsigned but possibly by Shivashanker Narayen.
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Three figures seated at work on a verandah. Probably an exhibition photograph, unsigned but possibly by Shivashanker Narayen.
Cloth stamper, Western India. Photographer: Narayen, Shivashanker
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Cloth stamper seated at a low table on the verandah of a house. This is probably the photograph shown at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873, and described in the catalogue as follows: 'Printing...This is done by wooden stamps, which are charged with the colouring ma...
Dyers at work, Western India. Photographer: Narayen, Shivashanker
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of dyers posed beside vats. This is probably the photograph shown at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873, and described in the catalogue as follows: 'The vats are of clay, and built in as shown in the picture. The furnace goes right under the vat, the fuel used...