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Container Reference (shelfmark) Photo 1000/42 Subject Musical Instruments

1. Photo 1000/42(4394)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4394)
Title:
Todas with clubs, etc., Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Group of four Toda men, carrying spears and clubs. One figure appears to be playing a flute-like instrument, while the crouching figure on the left holds a stringed instrument. Duplicate of print 1107.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

2. 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

3. Photo 1000/42(4402)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4402)
Title:
Irula men, Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Full-length study of four men holding musical instruments (a drum and a type of trumpet) and agricultural implements (an axe and a sickle). Duplicate of print 1124.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 1000/42(4410c)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4410c)
Title:
Three-quarter length seated portrait of an African man playing a musical instrument, Aden. Photographer: Unknown
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 b&w print