Genre: Architectural Photography View of the Strand Road frontage of the Sailors' Home. Subjects = British colonial architecture; European architecture in India; hostels; sailors' homes
D.F.S. [Doris Forbes Skrine] dispensing medicine to the Kirghiz of the Chopkana Jilgha, Alps of Qungur. Photographer: Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of Kirghiz men and women gathered around Doris Skrine, who kneels in front of a medicine chest. The caption note continues: 'Note elaborate head-dresses of the ladies, which are peculiar to these valleys. They contain 30-40 yards of muslin and quantities ...
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Doris Skrine handing out food to a group of Kirghiz women seated on the ground round blankets laid out with various foodstuffs. Signed 'S.P.S. July '23' on print. [Sepia toned gelatin silver print, mounted on card, 286x207mm]. Subjects = dress; ethnic group...
Kirghiz women visitors, Qizil Tagh region. Photographer: Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of Kirghiz women and children seated on the ground in a field. Caption note continues: 'Immediately my wife's tent was up at Suget (Qizil Tagh nr. Yarkand) these ladies came along from the only croft in the neighbourhood, sat down in front of the tent, to...