Kota musical instruments, Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Plate LXXIX of James Wilkinson Breeks, 'An account of the primitive tribes and monuments of the Nilagiris' (India Museum, London, 1873).
Two musicians playing a duet with tabla and tambura, Bengal. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Studio portrait of two mucisians, one playing a drum (the saringhi tabla), the other a stringed instrument (the tambura, but apparently here confused with the mandira).
Musicians with khole, kartal and singeh, Bengal. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of three musicians, posed in front of a European building, with a khole (type of drum), kartala (small cymbals) and singeh (curved horn).
Group of Kota musicians and dancers, Nilgiri hills. Photographer: Unknown
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Variant of plate XVIII of James Wilkinson Breeks, 'An account of the primitive tribes and monuments of the Nilagiris' (India Museum, London, 1873). For another copy of this print, see Photo 1000 (4398).