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21. Photo 972, 8(424)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 8(424)
Title:
Korama or Korwa. Hindoo. Mysore. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length seated portrait. 'The Koramas, or Korwas, as they are most generally called, are basket makers by profession, and also make mats from date palm leaves, very ingeniously plaiting the leaves into strips about four inches broad and sewing them together...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

22. Photo 972, 8(426)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 8(426)
Title:
Coorgs. Hindoos. Coorg. Photographer: Richter, G.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Family group, with elderly man seated in seated. 'The group represented is of Mattana, Soobadar of Mercara, and his younger relatives...The ethnology of the Coorgs has not been defined, but it is evident they are a peculiar people and race, unconnected with the...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

23. Photo 972, 8(428)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 8(428)
Title:
Hegades. Hindoos. Coorg. Photographer: Richter, G.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Oval image, faded. Full-length standing portrait of man and woman. 'Meder and his wife belong to a small cultivating class in Coorg, who reside at Jeddenal Kun Naad, in the south of Coorg, a place to which they emigrated from Malyalim some centuries ago. They a...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

24. Photo 972, 8(429)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 8(429)
Title:
Holeyas. Hindoos. Coorg. Photographer: Richter, G.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Faded images. Full-length standing portrait, in profile. 'The Holeyas are found in the Coorg houses all over the country. They perform menial work for the Coorgs, to whom they belong as members of their domestic institutions...They dress variously, but eat all ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

25. Photo 972, 8(468)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 8(468)
Title:
Mugh. Arracan. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Oval image. Vignetted head and shoulders portrait. 'The Mughs are a highly Bengalized class of Rakoings, who call themselves Myami or great Myams. They inhabit Arracan, where they form an industrious, active and useful class of people, not without soldierly qua...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

26. Photo 972, 8(452)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 8(452)
Title:
Polayers. Slave Caste. Travancore. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length standing portrait of a man and a woman. '...Principally located in the Travancore province, and are evidently one of the aboriginal tribes belonging to the forest races of the south-western portion of the peninsula; not now wild, as they once were, ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

27. Photo 972, 8(463)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 8(463)
Title:
Burman. Lower Provinces. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Oval image. Vignetted head and shoulders portrait of a Burmese man. Subjects = Burmese (ethnic group); ethnic groups; printed books; Watson and Kaye, 'People of India' (8 vols, 1868-75); Watson and Kaye, 'People of India' (vol 8, 1875)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

28. Photo 972, 8(458)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 8(458)
Title:
A Jacoon and his wife. Malay Peninsula. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Oval image. Full-length seated portrait. 'The Jacoons are a primitive tribe inhabiting, in conjunction with others of the same character, the Malayan Peninsula. They are the most African and prognathous of the lank haired Indianesian tribes...The Jacoon and his...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

29. Photo 972, 8(462)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 8(462)
Title:
Purrikhet. Chief of the Kooki Tribe. Chittagong. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Oval image. Full-length seated portrait of the Kuki chief and his daughter. This photographs has been created from two original portraits. 'The plate represents the chief of the Kuki tribe with his daughter. The tribe are cultivators to a small extent, and they...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

30. Photo 972, 8(408)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 8(408)
Title:
Rajah Bindah. Mysore. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Full-length seated portrait of a young boy, dressed in formal costume and turban. 'The plate represents a boy of the military class of Mysore, which is a numerous one, attached to the Rajah's court and army. They are Hindoos of good caste, aspiring to be termed Kshettryas, or descendants of Rajp...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item