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201. Photo 972, 4(198)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 4(198)
Title:
Moulvees. Mussulman lawyers. Delhi. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography For other copies of this photograph (later printings, with the background whited out, see APAC Photo 15/10(49) and Photo 28/2(38). Subjects = lawyers; moulvies; occupations; printed books; Watson and Kaye, 'People of India' (8 vols, 1868-75); Watson and Kaye,...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1862
Extent:
1 item

202. Photo 972, 4(199)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 4(199)
Title:
Rajpoots. Hindoos. Delhi. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Posed group of four men. A faded print. 'The group photographed shows a party of Chohan soldiers, armed in the native manner. The figure on the right has a broad shield at his back, which is slung over his left shoulder, and can be disengaged in a moment...The ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1862
Extent:
1 item

203. Photo 972, 4(200)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 4(200)
Title:
Brahmins. Hindoos. Delhi. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography '...A group of four persons is represented. One of these reading, probably from a sacred book, to a boy who is sitting on his right hand, and is most likely a pupil. The other two men are apparently listening, though the youth on the right of the group may be a...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1862
Extent:
1 item

204. Photo 972, 4(201)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 4(201)
Title:
Marwarrees. Hindoo merchants, originally from Marwar. Delhi. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Subjects = ethnic groups; Marwaris; occupations; printed books; reading & writing; traders; Watson and Kaye, 'People of India' (8 vols, 1868-75); Watson and Kaye, 'People of India' (vol 4, 1869)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1862
Extent:
1 item

205. Photo 972, 4(202)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 4(202)
Title:
Mewattees. Mussulmans. Originally Hindoos. Delhi. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Posed group of four men: '...The group represented in the photograph is a fair specimen of the lower classes of the tribe, when without arms, and acting as farm labourers or in other menial capacity.' Subjects = ethnic groups; Mewatis; printed books; Watson a...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1862
Extent:
1 item

206. Photo 972, 4(203)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 4(203)
Title:
Bairagees. Hindoo devotees. Delhi. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of three men. Oval image. '...Two members of the order are given in the guise in which they usually appear, either when migratory as performing pilgrimages, or engaged in local practices of penance...The central figure may have been a Brahmin or Rajpoot, ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1862
Extent:
1 item

207. Photo 972, 4(204)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 4(204)
Title:
Menas. Hindoos of low caste. Vagrants. Delhi. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length standing portrait of a man and a woman. Oval image. 'The Meenas are one of the aboriginal tribes which formerly, perhaps, peopled Rajpootana, where they still remain. They are found in Jeypoor, Joudhpoor, and generally all over Rajpootan; but it is ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1862
Extent:
1 item

208. Photo 972, 4(205)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 4(205)
Title:
Jogis. Snake charmers. Hindoos of low caste. Delhi. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography 'The photograph displays two of the tribe exhibiting cobra capellas, or nags, and playing to them upon an instrument made of a gourd of a peculiar shape...The sound is like that of a flageolet...Strange as it may seem, the hooded snakes appear to delight in the...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1862
Extent:
1 item

209. Photo 972, 4(206)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 4(206)
Title:
Famine stricken group. Delhi. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Presumably victims of the famine of 1860-61. Subjects = disasters; famine; printed books; Watson and Kaye, 'People of India' (8 vols, 1868-75); Watson and Kaye, 'People of India' (vol 4, 1869)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1862
Extent:
1 item

210. Photo 972, 4(207)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 4(207)
Title:
Kunaits. Buddhists and Hindoos. Simla. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of three figures. Oval image. Subjects = ethnic groups; Kunaits; printed books; Watson and Kaye, 'People of India' (8 vols, 1868-75); Watson and Kaye, 'People of India' (vol 4, 1869)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item