Sweetmeat sellers, Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Man and woman posed with baskets of sweetmeats beside a path in front of European houses. A crudely hand-coloured salt print.
Non-photographic: original watercolour, inscribed 'A Suttunee, or woman of the Sut caste', by a Western Indian artist, c. 1850.
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One of a series of 12 drawings depicting costumes of Western India. See Mildred Archer, 'Company drawings in the India Office Library' (London, 1972), p. 238, catalogue reference 197 (i).
Non-photographic: original watercolour, inscribed 'A Hindoo woman with pitchers of water', by a Western Indian artist, c. 1850.
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One of a series of 12 drawings depicting costumes of Western India. See Mildred Archer, 'Company drawings in the India Office Library' (London, 1972), p. 238, catalogue reference 197 (vi).
Kitmutgar (Muslim servant), Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length standing portrait. 'The Anglo-Indian use is peculiar to the Bengal Presidency, where the word is habitually applied to a Musulman servants, whose duties are connected with serving meals and waiting at table, under the Khansaman if there is one' (Hob...