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241. Photo 1258(51)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1258(51)
Title:
Snake charmer [Calcutta]. Photographer: Sperring, Stanley
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1946-1953
Extent:
1 item

242. PP.3803.bha, 1/24(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
PP.3803.bha, 1/24(2)
Title:
O Shishi, street tumblers. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Group of acrobats: 'The four boys depicted … are well known to all who visit Yokohama; and they are but specimens of street Arabs who are to Yedo and other populous towns in Japan, what the little fellows who make wheels of themselves, and roll along the kerbstones o...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1871
Extent:
1 item

243. WD540(65)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD540(65)
Title:
The Elephant Pen, and Wild Elephant taming.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
‘The Elephant Pen, and Wild Elephant taming.’ THIS exhibition, which was got up for the entertainment of the Mission, did not appear to be necessarily the process by which the noble and sagacious Elephant is tamed to man’s use in Burmah; as another, simpler, and either more humane or more skilf...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item

244. WD554

Reference (shelfmark):
WD554
Title:
Dancing girls with musicians, Madras. Artist(s): Gantz, Justinian (1802-1862)
Scope & Content:
Dancing girls with musicians, Madras. 1841. Inscribed on front in ink: ‘Musicians, Songster and Nautch or Dancing Girls. Just’ ‘Gantz. Popham's Broadway. No.35. Madras. 1841.’ Water-colour; 12.5 by 18 ins.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1841
Extent:
1 Item

245. WD1478

Reference (shelfmark):
WD1478
Title:
Album of 414 drawings and scraps, and 9 prints of landscapes, architecture, natural history, and people, including Indian costumes and military uniforms. Made in W. India and the Deccan, 1822-56, and during a journey overland to England, 1840 by John Brownrigg Bellasis (1806-90)
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1822-56
Extent:
Album of 414 drawings and scraps, and 9 prints of landscapes, architecture, natural history, and people, including Indian costumes and military uniforms. Made in W. India and the Deccan, 1822-56, and during a journey overland to England

246. WD1749

Reference (shelfmark):
WD1749
Title:
The Mhang, or village musician, beating a drum. March 1872. Artist(s): Kipling, John Lockwood (1837-1911)
Scope & Content:
The’ Mhang,’ or village musician, beating a drum. March 1872. Inscribed on front in water-colour: ‘J.L.K. Khngaum. March 1872;’ on back in pencil: ‘No 33 The 'Mhang'.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1872
Extent:
1 Item

247. WD3139

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3139
Title:
Sinhalese spirit dancer. Principal Sanni Yaksa, who has 18 attendants: Kola Sanni Yakka.. Artist(s): Armstrong, B.M. (fl. 1885)
Scope & Content:
Principal Sanni Yaksa, who has 18 attendants: ‘Kola Sanni Yakka’.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1885
Extent:
1 Item

248. WD3140

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3140
Title:
Sinhalese spirit dancer. Spirit of dumbness: Golu Sanni Yakka. Artist(s): Armstrong, B.M. (fl. 1885)
Scope & Content:
Spirit of dumbness: ‘Golu Sanni Yakka’.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1885
Extent:
1 Item

249. WD3141

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3141
Title:
Sinhalese spirit dancer. Spirit of blindness: Kanna Sanni Yakka. Artist(s): Armstrong, B.M. (fl. 1885)
Scope & Content:
Spirit of blindness: ‘Kanna Sanni Yakka’.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1885
Extent:
1 Item

250. WD3142

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3142
Title:
Sinhalese spirit dancer. Spirit of folly or madness: Aboota Sanni Yakka. Artist(s): Armstrong, B.M. (fl. 1885)
Scope & Content:
Spirit of folly or madness: ‘Aboota Sanni Yakka’.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1885
Extent:
1 Item