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1. Add Or 3960-3968

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Add Or 3960-3968
Title:
Add.Or.3960-3968 9 drawings from a set depicting servants, methods of transport, occupations and festivals. By a Cuttack artist, c.1840. Inscribed on ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.3960-3968 9 drawings from a set depicting servants, methods of transport, occupations and festivals. By a Cuttack artist, c.1840. Inscribed on front with titles and explanatory notes. Water-colour; 285 by 227 mm. From the collection of Mildred and W.G. Archer. Purchased 1978. Note:...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1839-1841
Extent:
9 items

2. Add Or 3968

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Add Or 3968
Title:
Hookswinging festival
Scope & Content:
Hookswinging festival (‘Charak puja’). Inscribed on front: ‘A Native ceremony. The man swinging by the back is performing a vow. A hook is put into the flesh of his back and he swings there for a certain time. He throws out fruit and flowers to the Bystanders. Those who swing are generally ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1840
Extent:
1 Item

3. Add Or 3961

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Add Or 3961
Title:
A Hindu servant
Scope & Content:
A Hindu servant with white coat and crimson edged dhoti. Inscribed on front: ‘A Hindoo Servant.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1840
Extent:
1 Item

4. Add Or 3964

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3964
Title:
Two women grinding flour
Scope & Content:
Two women grinding flour, another woman with a baby and a child look on. Four children on the left; on the right a ‘tulsi’ shrine. Inscribed: ‘Grinding flour.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1840
Extent:
1 Item

5. Add Or 3965

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3965
Title:
Women husking paddy with a dhenki
Scope & Content:
Women husking paddy with a ‘dhenki’. In the background a village house and a storage jar for grain.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1840
Extent:
1 Item

6. Add Or 3960

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Add Or 3960
Title:
Butler holding a quill pen and notebook
Scope & Content:
Butler holding a quill pen and notebook. Inscribed on front: ‘Our head servant. A Mussalman.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1840
Extent:
1 Item

7. Add Or 3963

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3963
Title:
A watercarrier (bhisti) with his bullock and water-skins
Scope & Content:
A watercarrier (‘bhisti’) with his bullock and water-skins. Inscribed on front: ‘A Bheastie, a man that brings water round by a Bullock. the bags are made of Pig’s skin.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1840
Extent:
1 Item

8. Add Or 3967

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Add Or 3967
Title:
Washerman and women at work by a tank
Scope & Content:
Washerman and women at work by a tank. Inscribed on front: ‘Washermen. This is a Tank in Cuttack where they are washing. You will see here the good beating the clothes get upon the stones every time they are washed so you need not wonder at a nice muslin dress soon going to rags. These are n...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1840
Extent:
1 Item

9. Add Or 3962

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3962
Title:
Four palanquin bearers carrying an English lady in a tonjon
Scope & Content:
Four palanquin bearers carrying an English lady in a tonjon. Inscribed on front: ‘A lady taking an airing in a Tonjon. Bengal bearers.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1840
Extent:
1 Item

10. Add Or 3966

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3966
Title:
A woman ginning cotton, a man (dhuniya) carding it and a woman spinning
Scope & Content:
A woman ginning cotton, a man (‘dhuniya’) carding it and a woman spinning. Inscribed on front: ‘Spinning the Cotton. Taking seeds out of the Cotton Beating out the Cotton.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1840
Extent:
1 Item

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