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Subject Musicians Material Type Photographs

101. Photo 972, 2(107)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 2(107)
Title:
Mirassees. Mahomedan minstrels. Moradabad. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of three figures, seated on a rug, with musical instruments: 'Mirassees, or minstrels, are not a reputable class of people, and are generally employed by dancing girls to play to them, when engaged to dance or sing at nautches...They are common in the dis...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

102. Photo 1000/10(1114)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/10(1114)
Title:
Kotas playing and dancing, Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Posed group of musicians and dancers. Plate xviii of James Wilkinson Breeks, 'An account of the primitive tribes and monuments of the Nilagiris' (India Museum, London, 1873).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

103. Photo 1000/42(4398)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4398)
Title:
Kotas playing and dancing, Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Posed group of musicians and dancers. Variant of plate xviii of James Wilkinson Breeks, An account of the primitive tribes and monuments of the Nilagiris (India Museum, London, 1873), evidently taken on the same occasion, but with figures posed slightly differently.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

104. Photo 1000/52(4965)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4965)
Title:
Group of jugglers and musicians, Madras. Photographer: Nicholas and Curths
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Studio group. The sword-swallower from print 4964 also appears in this group. From the series of 'Photographs illustrating various native classes, occupations, &c....Native jugglers,' by Nicholas & Curths, shown at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873 (J. Forb...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

105. Photo 1000/66(5754)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/66(5754)
Title:
Two musicians playing a duet with tabla and tambura, Bengal. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Studio portrait of two mucisians, one playing a drum (the saringhi tabla), the other a stringed instrument (the tambura, but apparently here confused with the mandira).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

106. Photo 1000/66(5755)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/66(5755)
Title:
Musicians with khole, kartal and singeh, Bengal. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of three musicians, posed in front of a European building, with a khole (type of drum), kartala (small cymbals) and singeh (curved horn).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

107. Photo 1000/66(5756)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/66(5756)
Title:
Musical quintet, Bengal. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group with instruments seated in front of the same building seen in print 5755. The instruments are identified as two types of drum (nagara and damama), a cymbal-like instrument (kartala), and two types of oboe-like wind instruments (sahanai).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

108. Photo 1000/66(5757)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/66(5757)
Title:
Musical quintet, Bengal. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of musicians (the same figures seen in print 5756, and posed in front of the same building), with instruments. These are identified as a small pair of drums (tabla), three oboe-like instruments (sahanai) and small cymbals (manjira).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

109. Photo 1000/66(5758)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/66(5758)
Title:
Musical octet, Bengal. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group posed in front of house also seen in prints 5755-5757. The instruments seen are identified as drums (dhaka, dhole, kara, jaya jhampa, nagara and Tashar), and the oboe-like sahanai.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

110. Photo 1000/66(5764)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/66(5764)
Title:
Group of Kota musicians and dancers, Nilgiri hills. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Variant of plate XVIII of James Wilkinson Breeks, 'An account of the primitive tribes and monuments of the Nilagiris' (India Museum, London, 1873). For another copy of this print, see Photo 1000 (4398).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item