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Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 972, 8(440)
Title:: Badaga Women. Hindoos. Neelgerry Hills. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length seated portrait. Subjects = Badagas; 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 972, 1(36)
Title:: Rengma Naga. Marauding hill tribe. Assam. Photographer: Simpson, Benjamin
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Half-length half profile portrait of a Rangma Naga man, holding a spear. Oval image. 'Naga is the generic term given (with various distinctive prefixes) to a series of wild tribes inahbiting a comparatively unexplored tract on the south-eastern borders of Upper...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1860s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 972, 1(51)
Title:: Cheboo Lama, Minister of Sikhim. Tibetan. Sikhim. Photographer: Simpson, Benjamin
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Head and shoulders quarter-profile portrait. Oval image. 'The Cheboo-Lama, late the Dewan, or Prime Minister, of the Sikhim State, was originally a student of Mendooling, a famous college or school in Tibet, two journies east of Lhassa...The Lama's first introd...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1860s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 972, 1(52)
Title:: Lama (Buddhist priest). Tibetan. Pemianchi, in Tibet. Photographer: Simpson, Benjamin
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Head and shoulders full-face portrait. Oval image. Subjects = ethnic groups; lamas; printed books; Tibetans; Watson and Kaye, 'People of India' (8 vols, 1868-75); Watson and Kaye, 'People of India' (vol 1, 1868)
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1860s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 972, 7(346)
Title:: Goojur Zemindars. Hindoos. Rajpootana [Bharatpur]. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Oval image. Full-length portrait of four men gathered round cart. The plate shows a party of Goojur zemindars, who are farmers or cultivators, with one of their strong and very useful carts. These are used for the transport of grain or forage to Agra, or any ci...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1862
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 972, 7(358)
Title:: Lodhas. Hindoos. Saugor. Photographer: Waterhouse, James
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Oval image, yellowed and fading. Full-length portrait of four figures, seated in a row in European chairs. 'The Lodhis are a tribe of cultivators who much resemble Jats. Many years ago a number of them emigrated from the Upper Provinces and settled in the Nerbu...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1862
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 972, 1(29)
Title:: Singpho. Warlike frontier tribe (Laos). Southern frontier of Assam. Photographer: Simpson, Benjamin
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Head and shoulders half-profile portrait. Oval image. Subjects = ethnic groups; printed books; Singphos; Watson and Kaye, 'People of India' (8 vols, 1868-75); Watson and Kaye, 'People of India' (vol 1, 1868)
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1860s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 972, 4(194)
Title:: Nuts. Jugglers and acrobats. Low caste Hindoos. Delhi. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography 'The present photograph has been selected because it shows a group of Nuts, in the act of performance of legerdemain tricks, in which they are very expert...' Subjects = acrobats; entertainers; ethnic groups; jugglers; Nuts; printed books; Watson and Kaye, 'P...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1862
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 972, 4(195)
Title:: Sanseeas. Vagrants, of no particular creed. Delhi. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of a man and two women. Oval imageThe Sanseeas are here characterized as an itinerant criminal tribe, 'essentially outcasts, admitted to no other caste fellowship, ministered to by no priests, without any ostensible calling or profession, totally ignorant...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1862
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 972, 4(218)
Title:: Seeba Rajah and suite. Trans-Sutlej States [Kangra District, Himachal Pradesh]. Hindoos. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Subjects = Indian rulers; printed books; Watson and Kaye, 'People of India' (8 vols, 1868-75); Watson and Kaye, 'People of India' (vol 4, 1869)
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1860s
Extent:: 1 item

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