Genre: Ethnographical Photography Half-length portrait against a plain background. Exhibited in 'India Through the Lens', Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, December 2000 to March 2001. Exhibited in 'India: Pioneering Photographers 1850-1900', Brunei Gallery, London, 11 October - 12 Decem...
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Half-length portrait of a Kanaujiya Brahman, posed a against a plain background, clasping a long necklace. Second copy neg at B.538. Exhibited in 'India Through the Lens', Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, December 2000 to March 2001. Exhibited in 'India...
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Half-length portrait against a plain background. The Doms were an aboriginal caste described as basket- and mat-makers, but classed among the criminal tribes. See also print 30. Exhibited in 'India Through the Lens', Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, Dece...
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Half-length portrait against a plain background of a Manipuri man standing with a polo mallet. His face and arms are decorated with painting. Second copy neg at B.530. Exhibited in 'India Through the Lens', Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, December 2000 ...
This photograph shows a half-length portrait, against a plain background, of a Kaibartha man posed with a net taken by an unknown photographer in the early 1860s.
Circular, vignetted image. Group portrait, taken in the open air, of men of an unidentified caste. They are posed posed among piles of straw of some kind, and this presumably indicates membership of one of the cultivator castes. Behind them is the photographer's temporary studio composed of wove...
Portrait of a man belonging to the aboriginal Dosadh tribe by an unknown photographer in the early 1860s. The Dosadh tribe were traditionally associated with Bihar though some families lived in Dacca during the nineteenth century.
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Trained bear with its master. Print unsigned, but print number 3009 matches Bourne & Shepherd photograph of this subject under the heading 'Central India types'. Subjects = animals; bears; entertainers; performing animals; performing bears
Portrait of a religious mendicant from Bangladesh by an unknown photographer, early 1860s. It shows a dervish of the Sufi Chishti order. Sufis are devotees of the mystical branch of Islam. In this case the man is a follower of the Indian saint Muin-u'd-din Chishti, whose shrine in Ajmer remains ...
