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301. Photo 1180/1(12)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/1(12)
Title:
Cutting jute under water. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Scope & Content:
View showing agricultural workers cutting jute from beneath the surface of the water.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

302. Photo 1180/1(13)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/1(13)
Title:
Pulling jute up by the roots. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Scope & Content:
Showing agricultural workers, standing waist-deep in the water to harvest jute.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

303. Photo 1180/1(14)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/1(14)
Title:
Binding jute previous to retting. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Scope & Content:
View showing agricultural worker, standing waist-deep in the water, binding up bundles of harvested jute.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

304. Photo 1180/1(15)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/1(15)
Title:
Retting jute. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Scope & Content:
Showing a worker, standing waist-deep in the water, in the process of retting bundles of jute. Retting involves moistening and softening the jute to promote bacterial action, in order to facilitate separation of the fibres from the woody tissue by beating.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

305. Photo 1180/1(16)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/1(16)
Title:
Beating jute with mallets (thapans) and extracting fibre. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Scope & Content:
View showing a group of workers, posed thigh deep in the water, using flat-bladed wooden thapans to beat the bundles of jute.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

306. Photo 1180/1(18)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/1(18)
Title:
Peeling off the jute fibre. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Scope & Content:
View showing workers at the water's edge of a river, engaged in separating the jute fibre.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

307. Photo 1180/1(19)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/1(19)
Title:
Drying jute on bamboos. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Scope & Content:
Showing jute being hung to dry on a bamboo frame.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

308. Photo 1180/1(20)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/1(20)
Title:
Carting jute to Hat (market). Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann
Scope & Content:
Showing bullock carts loaded with jute on the road to market.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

309. Photo 1180/1(21)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/1(21)
Title:
Drumming jute (laying the drum). Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Scope & Content:
View showing two workers demonstrating the procedure of arranging the jute fibre into drums (the whole process through to the finished drum is illustrated in prints 21-25).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

310. Photo 1180/1(23)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/1(23)
Title:
Drumming jute (the first roll). Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Scope & Content:
Showing two workers demonstrating the stages of binding up the jute fibre into drums (the whole process up to the finished bale is shown in prints 21-25).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

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