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361. Photo 146/1(335)

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Photo 146/1(335)
Title:
A freshwater brook between Kumpta and Honowar. The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography In a clear shallow pool just above where it met the sea were three brightly banded sea snakes. Yellow and blue, black and yellow.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

362. Photo 146/1(336)

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Photo 146/1(336)
Title:
View across the estuary. Honowar/Onore, The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography The fort, of which there is hardly one stone upon another, was on the slight rise in mid-picture. ‘Oriental Memoirs’, James Forbes, has a sketch of it as left by the siege of 1783. The District Bungalow now stands there.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

363. Photo 146/1(363)

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Photo 146/1(363)
Title:
Bednore, Kundapure (between Bhatkal and Mulpy). The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography The road junction of North and South Canara before the ascent of the ghaut. It was the coastal base of General Mathews (1783) when he marched up the the Hyder Ghaut to seize the fortress of Bednore, which contained a great part of Tipu Sultan's treasure. The ultim...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

364. Photo 146/1(398)

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Photo 146/1(398)
Title:
A stamba, an upright stone pillar. The South Canara Coast, Madras Presidency. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
Pillar with a flat top on to which head loads can be placed whilst the carrier rests. The load being at head-top level is easily shifted over. These stambas are often provided for public use by individuals, from the same sense of benevolence as prompts the gift of seats in our own parks and op...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

365. Photo 146/1(429)

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Photo 146/1(429)
Title:
On the road from Mangalore to Udipi. Karal, The South Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography A stone column at the Jain temple here.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

366. Photo 146/1(454)

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Photo 146/1(454)
Title:
Mohamedan Idigah, a Place of Prayer. Mangalore, the South Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
It is on Lighthouse Hill, and is said to have been constructed from stone of the old Milagres Church, demolished by Tipu Sultan.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

367. Photo 146/1(94b)

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Photo 146/1(94b)
Title:
The Konkun Coast, Korlai. Santa Cruz Battery. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Its purpose was to prevent hostile ships entering the inner harbour. Hardly defensible from an attack from landward. The Portuguese gained their footing on the Bombay coast at the expense of the tributary kings of the Delhi empire. When the intruders settles at Chaul, the opposite side of the ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

368. Photo 146/1(121)

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Photo 146/1(121)
Title:
Hurnai, The Konkun Coast. Kanka Island Fort. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography On Kanka is the harbour light. In the 1817 war it was sufficient for Kanka alone to be assaulted and taken for the other garrisons to surrender. The attackers were 30 European sailors of the Indian Navy, armed with pistols and 'tomahawks and 50 sepoys of the Marine ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

369. Photo 146/1(271)

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Photo 146/1(271)
Title:
Ramnatah Temple, near Sadashevgad. The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography [It is] where a notorious dacoit named Gidda Gomerjee, who had terrorised the district for twenty years had taken up quarters with his followers. A detachment of the 1-3rd Battery of Sepoys (2-5th Mahratta Light Infantry) from the fort was sent out to round up t...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

370. Photo 146/1(283)

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Photo 146/1(283)
Title:
The Protestant Cemetery, Karwar. The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
The cemetery enclosed and formerly, at least well cared for. The background is the scrub jungle of Karwar Head. On the very narrow neck between Karwar Head and Beitcul. It remained unconsecrated for some years, but in 1867 it became known that Dr Harding, Bishop of Calcutta was aboard a steame...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item