Numbered B412 in the negative. Kashmir visited by the compiler of this album between 3 April and 30 November 1878. Full-length portrait of a group of three women and a musician with stringed instrument.
Kashmir was visited by the compiler of this album between 3 April and 30 November 1878. Studio portrait of two women, with two musicians playing string instruments (Santoor).
Kashmir nautch girls. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Numbered 606 in the negative. Kashmir was visited by the compiler of this album between 3 April and 30 November 1878. Showing dancing girls performing before an audience of men in the verandah of a pavilion in the Shalimar Gardens at Srinagar. Listed in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue as 'A N...
Kashmir nautch girls. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Numbered 607 in the negative. Kashmir was visited by the compiler of this album between 3 April and 30 November 1878. Group of dancing girls and musicians seated on a terrace, probably, like print 149, in the Shalimar Gardens at Srinagar. Listed in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue as 'Group of...
Full-length hand tinted studio portrait of two girls, one seated on a chair holding a stringed instrument, the other standing beside her. In the background are four banners with Chinese inscriptions.
Batavian Dancing Girl. Photographer: Woodbury and Page
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Full-length studio group portrait of a woman in costume, with musicians seated around her. This particular group played wayang topeng, one of the traditional varieties of Javanese theatre, in which the players performed roles while wearing topeng or masks made out of wood. Such groups usually d...