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51. Photo 124(50)

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Photo 124(50)
Title:
[unidentified ethnic group, Eastern Bengal.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Circular vignetted image. Full-length portrait of five figures standing or squatting in front of a building, with the temporary studio partially visible at the left.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

52. Photo 124(51)

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Photo 124(51)
Title:
[unidentified ethnic group, Eastern Bengal.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Portrait taken by an unknown photographer of five men posed in front of a temporary studio in the early 1860s.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

53. Photo 124(52)

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Photo 124(52)
Title:
[Snake charmers, Eastern Bengal.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Full-length portrait of nine snake charmers posed with their pipes, baskets and sacks containing the snakes. This print gives a particularly good view in the background of the temporary studio erected by the photographer.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

54. Photo 124(53)

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Photo 124(53)
Title:
Chutki-Kuti (cocoanut shell hooka-makers), Eastern Bengal. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Portrait of a row of hookah makers posed to demonstrate various stages in the manufacture of hookahs from coconut shells.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

55. Photo 124(54)

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Photo 124(54)
Title:
[Group of musicians (drummers), Eastern Bengal.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Portrait of a group of musicians by an unknown photographer, early 1860s.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

56. Photo 124(55)

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Photo 124(55)
Title:
Dhuniya, Muhammadan cotton carders, Eastern Bengal. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
This print is one of a series of portrait studies of individuals and groups from Eastern Bengal (modern Bangladesh and Assam) taken in the 1860s. It shows a group of Muslim 'dhuniya' or cotton carders with the instruments of their trade. Although the word 'dhuniya' is Sanskrit in origin and the ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

57. Photo 124(56)

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Photo 124(56)
Title:
Sarnakais (goldsmiths), Eastern Bengal. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
This print shows a group of three goldsmiths posed with the tools of their trade taken by an unknown photographer in the early 1860s.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

58. Photo 124(57)

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Photo 124(57)
Title:
Chanda [opium] smokers, Eastern Bengal. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Portrait of five opium smokers arranged in a tableau with pipes and other impedimenta in a temporary studio. Chandoo is a prepared extract of opium.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

59. Photo 124(58)

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Photo 124(58)
Title:
Sankhari, shell-cutters, Eastern Bengal. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Portrait of five Sankhari, members of the Hindu Sudra caste of shell-cutters, taken by an unknown photographer during the early 1860s. Contemporary accounts relate that such Sankharis were generally followers of the Hindu gods Vishnu or Krishna and usually vegetarian. The shells used for manufac...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

60. Photo 124(59)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 124(59)
Title:
[Weavers, Eastern Bengal.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Two weavers at work at a loom in an open-sided mud-walled house taken by an unknown photographer in the early 1860s.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item