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Name Shepherd and Robertson Material Type Photographs

131. Photo 972, 4(204)

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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

132. 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

133. 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

134. Photo 972, 7(343)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 7(343)
Title:
Jat Sirdars. Hindoos. Rajpootana [Bharatpur]. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of three seated figures with attendant. '...The group here represented...depicts three persons of the upper class, sirdars or chiefs, sitting in a most respectful, but to them, truly uncomfortable manner, with their feet tucked under them, and their sword...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1862
Extent:
1 item

135. Photo 972, 7(344)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 7(344)
Title:
Jat Zemindars. Hindoos. Rajpootana [Bharatpur]. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Photograph unsigned, probably by Shepherd & Robertson. Seated group, one figure holding a small hookah. 'The present subject can hardly fail to be acceptable, not only from the beauty and grace of the photograph, but as an illustration of a party of well-to...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1862
Extent:
1 item

136. Photo 972, 7(345)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 7(345)
Title:
Goojur Sirdars. Hindoo. Rajpootana [Bharatpur]. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of three kneeling figures (similarly posed to group on print 343), with attendant standing at left beside large hookah. '...Though the names of those represented in the plate are not given, we may assume them, from the Political Agent's Report, to belong ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1862
Extent:
1 item

137. Photo 972, 7(346)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 7(346)
Title:
Goojur Zemindars. Hindoos. Rajpootana [Bharatpur]. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Oval image. Full-length portrait of four men gathered round cart. The plate shows a party of Goojur zemindars, who are farmers or cultivators, with one of their strong and very useful carts. These are used for the transport of grain or forage to Agra, or any ci...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1862
Extent:
1 item

138. Photo 972, 7(347)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 7(347)
Title:
Khanzadas. Mussulmans. Rajpootana [Bharatpur]. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length portrait of four men. 'This striking and effective group of Khan Zadas evidently belongs to the agricultural class, as the wooden plough in the foreground, with its gear attached, plainly denotes [the plough is described in considerable detail later...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1862
Extent:
1 item

139. Photo 972, 7(348)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 7(348)
Title:
Sadhs. Hindoo sect. Rajpootana [Bharatpur]. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of four men, two standing, two seated on charpoy. 'By the official description, the Sadhs appear to be rather a limited sect than a separate, since any Hindoo of good caste can enter it...They do not acknowledge any Hindoo incarnations or divinity, but pr...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1862
Extent:
1 item

140. Photo 972, 7(349)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 7(349)
Title:
Guddees. Mussulmans. Rajpootana [Bharatpur]. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Two figures seated on light cart drawn by two bullocks, with figure standing at right. 'The Guddees profess to be a Mussulman tribe converted from low caste Hindooism in the reign of Aurungzeeb. They are cultivators, and keep and breed cattle to a large extent....
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1862
Extent:
1 item