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1. Photo 11(28)

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Photo 11(28)
Title:
Toda mund, village and Todas [Nilgiri Hills]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
View from a slightly elevated position, looking down onto a group of Toda men and women, posed in front of one of their distinctive thatched houses. The photograph was shown at the 1869 Bengal Photographic Society Exhibition, where it was considered 'a successful picture of its class.'
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 20(6)

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Photo 20(6)
Title:
The Musicians of the Paro Jongpen [Bhutan]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Group portrait of Bhutia musicians, posed in a clearing with ponies.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1905
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 20(29)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 20(29)
Title:
Musicians of Tongsa Penlop [Bhutan]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Group of musicians and dancers gathered in the same courtyard seen in the preceding print. The photograph was also used in The National Geographic Magazine (Apr 1914, p. 435), with the following caption: 'The King's singing girls. We were entertained ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1905
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 20(36)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 20(36)
Title:
Bhutanese coolies being fed after arrival in camp [Lingzi]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Group portrait of Bhutanese seated on ground as food is distributed, with tents in the background and hills beyond. The photograph was also used in The National Geographic Magazine (Apr 1914, p. 450), with the following caption: 'Feeding followers after arrival in camp: black yaks' hair tents an...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1905
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 20(37)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 20(37)
Title:
Tongsa Penlop's sister's family [Tongsa, Bhutan]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait, the family gathered on the entrance steps to a house. The photograph was used in The National Geographic Magazine (Apr 1914, p. 434), with the following caption: 'The Royal Family of Bhutan. On the top step stands the king, not in his robes of state b...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1905
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 394(16)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 394(16)
Title:
Natch girls of Srinugger, Cashmere. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Bourne no. 810.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1864
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 1003(2001)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(2001)
Title:
Close view of slab with naga sculpture, Madhukeshvara Temple, Banavasi. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography '...An upright slab of black stone upon which is carved, in bold relief, a naga or five-hooded serpent, while round the margin or frame runs a short inscription in letters which seem to belong to the second century A.D. It records the gift of a naga, a tank and ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 1099(34)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1099(34)
Title:
Group of Karens, men and women, taken at Tounghoo. Photographer: Jackson, J.
Scope & Content:
Photograph of a group of Karen men and women posed on the steps of a house at Taungoo taken by J. Jackson in c.1868. Oval image. Group of Karen men and women, posed on the steps of a house.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1868
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 1099(35)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1099(35)
Title:
Group of Burmese men [location unspecified]. Photographer: Jackson, J.
Scope & Content:
Photograph of a group of Burmese men in Burma (Myanmar), taken by J. Jackson in c.1868. Group of Burmese men, posed in front of the entrance to a house built on low piles. Location unspecified, possibly Mandalay.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1868
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 1183(11)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1183(11)
Title:
Baden Saleb's wife [Raden Saleh's wife.] Photographer: Woodbury and Page
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Numbered '24' in pencil on mount. Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait of the second wife of the Javanese artist Raden Saleh, a cousin of Sultan Hamengkubuwana VI, seated beside a small table, with an attendant seated on the floor beside her.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1867-1872
Extent:
1 item