Another group of the same [Hindoo dancing girls, probably at Secunderabad]. Photographer: Scott, Allan Newton
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Stereo half. Posed group with drummer, with two girls bent over backwards with their hands touching the ground behind them. Subjects = nautches; stereoscopic prints
Hindoo dancing girls [probably at Secunderabad]. Photographer: Scott, Allan Newton
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Stereo half. Similar to print 70, but with pose re-arranged. In the list of prints at the beginning of the volume, this plate is incorrectly captioned 'The same [ie dancing girls] playing cards'. Subjects = nautches; stereoscopic prints
Shoeing a bullock. Photographer: Scott, Allan Newton
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Stereo half. Three Indians at work shoeing a trussed bullock. Subjects = animals; bullocks; Scott, A.N., 'Sketches in India...' (1862); stereoscopic prints Location = Andhra Pradesh; Hyderabad (A.P.); India
The Bheastie, or water-carrier. Photographer: Scott, Allan Newton
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Stereo half. Bhisti or water carrier standing on the steps of a bungalow, with a European figure in the background. 'The regular bheastie carries water in a skin over one shoulder, but in the sketch the water is in the two earthen pots, or, as they are called, ...
Spinning cotton. Photographer: Scott, Allan Newton
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Stereo half. Woman seated beneath a tree with a spinning wheel. 'In the plate, the woman spinning is producing the common cotton yarn, used for the coards calicoes worn by the lower orders. Finer descriptions of yarn can only be spun under cover; and the very f...