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032-003126686 Subject Ethnic groups

301. Photo 1000/42(4378)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4378)
Title:
Studio portrait of Khan Bahadur Padanjee Pestonjee, Member of the Legislative Council, Bombay. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Three-quarter length seated portrait.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

302. Photo 1000/11(1170)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/11(1170)
Title:
Kistvaens (chest tomb) near the ruined fort of Udiraya, below Kotagiri, Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography India Museum No. 1123. Received from Mrs Breeks, July 1873. General view, photographed with measuring rule of the tomb constructed from stone slabs. Plate lxxvi of James Wilkinson Breeks, 'An account of the primitive tribes and monuments of the Nilagiris' (Indi...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1871
Extent:
1 item

303. Photo 1000/11(1181)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/11(1181)
Title:
Toda huts with a boa or temple in the foreground, Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography The boa is the conical thatched building (see also print 1109). Not used in Breeks.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1871
Extent:
1 item

304. Photo 1000/42(4337)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4337)
Title:
Andamanese group with Mr Homfray, their keeper, photographed at Calcutta. Photographer: Saché and Westfield
Scope & Content:
Portrait of seven Andamanese youths and Jeremiah Nelson Homfray, Superintendent of the Andamanese Orphanage. Oval image. The Andamanese were brought to Calcutta, where they were displayed to the members of the Asiatic Society, before being taken to the studio of Saché and Westfield, where they w...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1865
Extent:
1 item

305. Photo 1000/42(4342)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4342)
Title:
Portrait of the Nimbalkar of Satara (a Maratha), at Bombay Photographer: Hurrichund Chintamon.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1867
Extent:
1 item

306. Photo 1000/42(4349)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4349)
Title:
Studio portrait of three Parsees and a Parbhu, Bombay. Photographer: Hurrichund Chintamon.
Scope & Content:
Group seated around a small table, on which are placed books and writing implements, emphasising their intellectual interests and attainments. The Parbhu (Prabhu) man is second from the right. For a detailed account of this group, see S.M. Edwardes, The Gazetteer of Bombay City and Island (3 vol...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1867
Extent:
1 item

307. Photo 1000/42(4353)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4353)
Title:
Rajput men playing the game of Puchesee. Photographer: Eugene Clutterbuck Impey.
Scope & Content:
Duplicate of plate 67(a) of Impey's Delhi, Agra, and Rajpootana, Illustrated by Eighty Photographs (Cundall, Downes, & Co., London, 1865). 'Recd. from Messrs. Cundall & Downes 8/4/65.' Print shown at Paris Exhibition of 1867.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c. 1865
Extent:
1 item

308. Photo 1000/46(4634)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/46(4634)
Title:
Group of Parsee pupils and masters in class of the Elphinstone High School, Bombay. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Pupils seated round table with two teachers at the head. In the background is a map of the world, and a blackboard with (?)Persian calligraphy.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1873
Extent:
1 item

309. Photo 1000/42(4332)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4332)
Title:
Group of two South Indian woman and a child, Madras. Photographer: Madras School of Industrial Arts
Scope & Content:
Print shown at the Paris Exhibition of 1867.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1867
Extent:
1 item

310. Photo 1000/42(4346)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4346)
Title:
Full-length seated portrait of a man of the Bhatia caste, Bombay. Photographer: Hurrichund Chintamon.
Scope & Content:
Faded print. Oval image. Print shown at the Paris Exhibition of 1867.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1867
Extent:
1 item