Subject: Ethnic groups - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1224/1(78)
Title:: Todars. Aborigines of the [Nilgiri] Hills. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 2020 in the negative. Posed group of Toda men and women, seated in front of a Toda house. The Bourne and Shepherd catalogue titles this photograph: 'The Neilgherries: Toda Mund, village and Todas.'
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1869
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1224/2(44)
Title:: Rajpoots. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed and numbered Shepherd & Robertson, Photo: 1120 in the negative. Three sword bearing men kneeling, holding swords. On the left stands a bearer holding a staff; with a large hookah in the foreground. Also, a barely legible inscription on the negative reads (?)'Pi611'.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1862
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1224/2(162)
Title:: Afghan Traders. Photographer: Frith's Series
Scope & Content:: Frith's Series blindstamp. Kashmir and Ladakh were visited by album compiler between 3 April and 30 November 1878. Full-length studio portrait of two Afghan men, one seated, one standing; probably photographed in Kashmir.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1860s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1224/2(163)
Title:: [Kashmir Boatmen.] Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:: Numbered 876 in the negative. Kashmir and Ladakh were visited by album compiler between 3 April and 30 November 1878. Group portrait of Kashmiri boatmen, arranged in the open air in front of a cloth backdrop. Listed in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue as 'Kashmir Boatmen'.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1863-1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1224/2(164)
Title:: [Kashmiri] Boatmen. Photographer: Frith's Series
Scope & Content:: Frith's Series blindstamp. Kashmir and Ladakh were visited by album compiler between 3 April and 30 November 1878. Group portrait of Kashmiri boatmen, arranged in front of a cloth backdrop.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1860s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1224/2(165)
Title:: Bhotis [Bhutias]. Photographer: Frith's Series
Scope & Content:: Frith's Series blindstamp. Kashmir and Ladakh were visited by album compiler between 3 April and 30 November 1878. Studio portrait group of three Bhutia men, one holding a wooden pipe.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1860s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1224/2(185)
Title:: Bhots natives of Ladak [sic, for Tibetan group]. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
Scope & Content:: Portrait group of men and women, posed against a cloth backdrop. One of the woman is posed with her back to the camera to show details of dress and hairstyle. A lama seated on the left of the group. This appears to be no. 1132B in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue, 'Group of Thibetians.' Another...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1864
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1224/2(186)
Title:: Llama Priest. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
Scope & Content:: Full-length portrait of a Tibetan lama, holding prayer beads, posed against a cloth backdrop and leaning against a stand draped with textiles. This appears to be no. 1132A in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue, 'A Thibetian Llama from Lassa.'
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1864
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1224/3(87)
Title:: Aborigines of Formosa. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Full-length studio portrait of a woman, standing with bare torso her left arm resting on a table.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

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