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10871. 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

10872. 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

10873. Photo 1180/1(17)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/1(17)
Title:
Washing jute. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Scope & Content:
View showing two agricultural workers washing bundles of cut jute.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

10874. 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

10875. 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

10876. 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

10877. 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

10878. Photo 1180/1(22)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/1(22)
Title:
Drumming jute (filling the drum). 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

10879. 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

10880. Photo 1180/1(24)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/1(24)
Title:
Drumming jute (the last 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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