Kashmir nautch girls. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Numbered 606 in the negative. Kashmir was visited by the compiler of this album between 3 April and 30 November 1878. Showing dancing girls performing before an audience of men in the verandah of a pavilion in the Shalimar Gardens at Srinagar. Listed in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue as 'A N...
Batavian Dancing Girl. Photographer: Woodbury and Page
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Full-length studio group portrait of a woman in costume, with musicians seated around her. This particular group played wayang topeng, one of the traditional varieties of Javanese theatre, in which the players performed roles while wearing topeng or masks made out of wood. Such groups usually d...
[Portrait of Charles James Lucas, Japan.] Photographer: Unknown
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Portrait of Charles James Lucas (1853-1928), the compiler of this album, wearing Japanese dress and attended by two Japanese women performng the formalities of the tea ceremony. An unidentified European companion (probably his brother Morton Lucas) is seated to the left.