From Palamcottah: 3 photographs without numbers; no description in letters. They represent three children. Once en face. Photographer: Bake, Arnold Adriaan
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Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of three children from the front.
From Palamcottah: 3 photographs without numbers; no description in letters. They represent three children. Once from the side. Photographer: Bake, Arnold Adriaan
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Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of three children, taken from the side.
From Palamcottah: 3 photographs without numbers; no description in letters. They represent three children. Once in bath. (This is the first letter after Bake returned from Ceylon to India. He mentions that he collected 17 Singalese and 8 Tamil records in Ceylon, altogether about 40 songs and 3 films.) Photographer: Bake, Arnold Adriaan
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Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of three children taking bath. (This is the first letter after Bake returned from Ceylon to India. He mentions that he collected 17 Singalese and 8 Tamil records in Ceylon, altogether about 40 songs and 3 films.)
From Trivandrum: Palamcottah: Mr. Penn (in shorts) and Mr. Bennet, Principal of St. John's College, in front of Mr. Penn's house, where the Bakes stayed in the room above the porch. Photographer: Bake, Arnold Adriaan
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Genre: Portrait Photography In Palamcottah. Full-lenght portrait of Mr. Penn (in shorts) and Mr. Bennet, Principal of St. John's College, in front of Mr. Penn's house, where the Bakes stayed in the room above the porch.
From Trivandrum: The Villupathe singers. Villupathe is the worship of lower deities, often leading to religious ecstasy. The accompaniment is a ruffle on the string of an enormous bow with bells, slapping a red earthenware pot, cymbals and a small drum. Photographer: Bake, Arnold Adriaan
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Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of the Villupathe singers. Villupathe is the worship of lower deities, often leading to religious ecstasy. The accompaniment is a ruffle on the string of an enormous bow with bells, slapping a red earthenware pot, cymbals and a small drum.