[Portrait of an unidentified man, Eastern Bengal.] Photographer: Unknown
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Full-length portrait, taken in the open air, of a representative of an unidentified tribal group, posed with a stave and a musical instrument. He wears an ornate piece of headgear of many layers.
[Group of fakirs or religious mendicants, Eastern Bengal.] Photographer: Unknown
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Group portrait of Hindu ascetics taken by an unknown photographer in the early 1860s. The three vertical lines painted on the foreheads in ash and sandalwood on some of the men indicate that these members of the group are followers of Vishnu, members of the Vaishnavite branch of Hinduism.
Circular, vignetted image. Group portrait, taken in the open air, of men of an unidentified caste. They are posed posed among piles of straw of some kind, and this presumably indicates membership of one of the cultivator castes. Behind them is the photographer's temporary studio composed of wove...
[Musicians and dancers, Eastern Bengal.] Photographer: Unknown
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Circular vignetted image. Full-length portrait of two male musicians carrying a drum and a stringed instrument, and two female dancers. The figures stand in front of the temporary studio in which many of the photographs in this series were taken.
Circular vignetted image. Full-length portrait of five figures standing or squatting in front of a building, with the temporary studio partially visible at the left.