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5072. L.R.298.b.2, 1(39)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- L.R.298.b.2, 1(39)
- Title:
- Alhkidóhihi — Navaho. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
- Scope & Content:
- View of a Navaho sand painting: 'One of the four elaborate dry-paintings or sand altars employed in the rites of the Mountain Chant, a Navaho medicine ceremony of nine days' duration.'
- Collection Area:
- Printed Collections
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 1907
- Extent:
- 1 item
5073. L.R.298.b.2, 2(43)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- L.R.298.b.2, 2(43)
- Title:
- The burden-bearer — Pima. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
- Scope & Content:
- Genre: Portrait Photography View of a Pima woman carrying a basket on her back, seen from the rear in a desert landscape in Arizona: 'This illustration shows the typical burden basket of the several Piman tribes of southern Arizona, called kího in the Piman language. Their mythology relates tha...
- Collection Area:
- Printed Collections
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 1907
- Extent:
- 1 item
5074. L.R.298.b.2, 3(83)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- L.R.298.b.2, 3(83)
- Title:
- The Sun Dancer. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
- Scope & Content:
- Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of a sun dancer of the Teton Sioux: 'As they dance, the performers never leave the spot on which they stand, the movement consisting in a slight upward spring from the toes and ball of the foot; legs and body are rigid. Always the right palm is extended to t...
- Collection Area:
- Printed Collections
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 1907
- Extent:
- 1 item
5075. Maps C.21.f.12(303)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Maps C.21.f.12(303)
- Title:
- Baptism of 130 Indians of the Shebit Nation, at St George by the Mormons. Photographer: Unknown
- Scope & Content:
- Showing a Mormon minister standing in the water with an Indian man, and with a large group of Indians gathered on the bank behind. Stereo half, arched top.
- Collection Area:
- Map Collections
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 1870s
- Extent:
- 1 item
5076. Mss Eur B360b (65-94)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur B360b (65-94)
- Title:
- Album containing water-colours illustrating the notebook of Lady Florentia Sale (?1790-1853), during her stay in Agra 1832-33, while her husband Robert Sale was in command of his regiment the 13th Foot, at Agra 1831-35 Also 30 Benares paintings on mic
- Scope & Content:
- 30 gouache paintings on mica illustrating festivals, transport, occupations and boats, by Benares artists, c. 1820-30. Inscibed below as noted by Lady Sale. Various sets of differing quality have been mixed together. 65. ‘Elephant with Howdah.’ 165 by 216 mm. 66. ‘Suttee - or burning a widow ...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- c 1830
- Extent:
- 1 Item
5077. Or 4769, f.3
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 4769, f.3
- Title:
- Brahma, seated on a chabutra before a sacrificial fire, which separates him from his wife, here called Brahmani, she similarly seated, making an offering to the fire. Around the latter are gold sacrifical implements, trays of offerings, etc.
- Scope & Content:
- Brahma, four faced, crowned, bearded and white, four armed (back-scratcher, manuscript, nothing, gesturing towards the fire), wearing a white dhoti, seated on a chabutra before a sacrificial fire, which separates him from his wife, here called Brahmani, she similarly seated, wearing a gold flowe...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- c 1780
- Extent:
- 1 Item
5078. Or 4769, f.7
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 4769, f.7
- Title:
- A goddess shrine as constructed at the Durgapuja festival, with images of the goddess slaying the buffalo-demon, with other divinities.
- Scope & Content:
- A goddess shrine as constructed at the Durgapuja festival, with images of the goddess and others. They show Durga, ten armed, all but her principal arms treated like wings behind her shoulders, but all bearing weapons. She is standing with one foot planted on her lion, the other on the shoulde...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- c 1780
- Extent:
- 1 Item
5079. Or 4769, f.8
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 4769, f.8
- Title:
- Kali standing on a prostrate, naked and ithyphallic Siva. This is possibly an image as constructed for the Kalipuja festival.
- Scope & Content:
- Kali, black, her black hair loose down her back, her red tongue protruding, wearing a skirt of human hands and a necklace of heads, her earrings of human figures, four armed (head, sword, gesture, reassurance), standing on a prostrate, naked and ithyphallic Siva, a snake around his body, and wea...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- c 1780
- Extent:
- 1 Item
5080. Or 4770, f.27
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 4770, f.27
- Title:
- A shaven headed brahmin making an offering to an image of the Goddess.with all the necessary implements and offerings for puja (fruit and flowers, pots of water etc., lamps, coconut, conch shell, bell).
- Scope & Content:
- A shaven headed Brahmin, wearing a dhoti and with a scarf over his shoulder, and holding a book in front of him, sitting cross-legged in a landscape, with a little gilt image of the Goddess before him, and all the necessary implements and offerings for puja (fruit and flowers, pots of water etc....
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- c 1780
- Extent:
- 1 Item