Subject: Musical Instruments - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 667/2(259)
Title:: Distinct Sports. Photographer: Parsons, Arthur Edward Broadbent
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography View of a field and people sitting on the ground playing drums.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Apr 1929
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 667/3(134)
Title:: Sirikot. Photographer: Parsons, Arthur Edward Broadbent
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of local people gathered on the hill side, with banners and drums, possibly for a celebration.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Oct 1932-Dec 1932
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/10(1107)
Title:: Todas with clubs, etc., Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of four Toda men, carrying spears and clubs. One figure appears to be playing a flute-like instrument, while the crouching figure on the left holds a stringed instrument. Plate xi of James Wilkinson Breeks, 'An account of the primitive tribes and monument...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1870
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/10(1114)
Title:: Kotas playing and dancing, Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Posed group of musicians and dancers. Plate xviii of James Wilkinson Breeks, 'An account of the primitive tribes and monuments of the Nilagiris' (India Museum, London, 1873).
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1870
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/10(1124)
Title:: Irula men, Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length study of four men holding musical instruments (a drum and a type of trumpet) and agricultural implements (an axe and a sickle). Plate xxviii of James Wilkinson Breeks, 'An account of the primitive tribes and monuments of the Nilagiris' (India Museum...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1870
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/11(1173)
Title:: Kota musical instruments, from the Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Drum and various wind instruments. Plate lxxix of James Wilkinson Breeks, 'An account of the primitive tribes and monuments of the Nilagiris' (India Museum, London, 1873).
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1871
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/42(4394)
Title:: Todas with clubs, etc., Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Group of four Toda men, carrying spears and clubs. One figure appears to be playing a flute-like instrument, while the crouching figure on the left holds a stringed instrument. Duplicate of print 1107.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1870
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/42(4398)
Title:: Kotas playing and dancing, Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Posed group of musicians and dancers. Variant of plate xviii of James Wilkinson Breeks, An account of the primitive tribes and monuments of the Nilagiris (India Museum, London, 1873), evidently taken on the same occasion, but with figures posed slightly differently.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1870
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/42(4402)
Title:: Irula men, Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Full-length study of four men holding musical instruments (a drum and a type of trumpet) and agricultural implements (an axe and a sickle). Duplicate of print 1124.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1870
Extent:: 1 item

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