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1. Photo 124

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 124
Title:
Portraits of Bengal types, trades and castes. Photographer(s): Unknown, with one photograph by Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Prints 1-62 The main part of the collection consists of 62 albumen prints now loosely tipped onto modern archival card and enclosed in Secol sleeves. These have been dismounted either from album pages or card mounts and in the cases where original captions existed (just under half the total) the...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s-1890s
Extent:
72 items

2. Photo 124(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 124(1)
Title:
Madaria Faqir, Eastern Bengal. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Half-length portrait of a Muslim ascetic against a plain background taken by an unknown photographer in the early 1860s.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 124(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 124(2)
Title:
Sadhu Faqir, Eastern Bengal. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Half-length portrait against a plain background. Exhibited in 'India Through the Lens', Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, December 2000 to March 2001. Exhibited in 'India: Pioneering Photographers 1850-1900', Brunei Gallery, London, 11 October - 12 Decem...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 124(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 124(3)
Title:
[Scholar with book, Eastern Bengal.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Three-quarter length portrait against a plain background of the bespectacled figure of a Muslim scholar posed with a book by an unknown photographer and taken in the early 1860s.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 124(4)

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Photo 124(4)
Title:
Kochh Mandai, Eastern Bengal. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Half-length portrait against a plain backdrop of a Koch man holding a thick-bladed agricultural knife. Precise location unknown, but probably from Cooch Behar (modern Koch Bihar).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 124(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 124(5)
Title:
Manipuri polo-player, Eastern Bengal. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Half-length portrait against a plain background of a Manipuri man standing with a polo mallet. His face and arms are decorated with painting. Second copy neg at B.530. Exhibited in 'India Through the Lens', Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, December 2000 ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 124(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 124(6)
Title:
Darwesh (Chishtia), Eastern Bengal. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Portrait of a religious mendicant from Bangladesh by an unknown photographer, early 1860s. It shows a dervish of the Sufi Chishti order. Sufis are devotees of the mystical branch of Islam. In this case the man is a follower of the Indian saint Muin-u'd-din Chishti, whose shrine in Ajmer remains ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 124(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 124(7)
Title:
[Portrait of an elderly man wearing a skull-cap, Eastern Bengal.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Half-length portrait of an elderly Muslim man wearing a skull cap against a plain background taken by an unknown photographer in the early 1860s. This print is one of a series of portrait studies of individuals and groups from Eastern Bengal (modern Bangladesh and Assam).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 124(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 124(8)
Title:
Dosadh (syce), Eastern Bengal. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Portrait of a Dosadh 'syce' or groom taken by an unknown photographer in the early 1860s. The aboriginal Dosadh tribe were traditionally associated with Bihar though some families lived in Dacca during the nineteenth century.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 124(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 124(9)
Title:
[Portrait of a (?)Manipuri man.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Half-length portrait against a plain background. Part of the background has also been filled in in the negative to make the figure's head stand out more prominently. Identification as a Manipuri is only tentative.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item