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221. Photo 793(55)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 793(55)
Title:
An Indian Nautch [Delhi]. Photographer: Shepherd, Charles
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of dancers and musicians performing before an audience in the courtyard of a palace. Women in purdah can be seen through bamboo screens at the top of the print. Photograph uncredited, but probably taken by Charles Shepherd. For another copy of this print,...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

222. Photo 961(70)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 961(70)
Title:
Another group of the same [Hindoo dancing girls, probably at Secunderabad]. Photographer: Scott, Allan Newton
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Stereo half. Posed group with drummer, with two girls bent over backwards with their hands touching the ground behind them. Subjects = nautches; stereoscopic prints
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1862
Extent:
1 item

223. Photo 972, 2(107)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 2(107)
Title:
Mirassees. Mahomedan minstrels. Moradabad. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of three figures, seated on a rug, with musical instruments: 'Mirassees, or minstrels, are not a reputable class of people, and are generally employed by dancing girls to play to them, when engaged to dance or sing at nautches...They are common in the dis...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

224. Photo 1000/10(1114)

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

225. Photo 1000/42(4398)

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

226. Photo 1000/52(4965)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4965)
Title:
Group of jugglers and musicians, Madras. Photographer: Nicholas and Curths
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Studio group. The sword-swallower from print 4964 also appears in this group. From the series of 'Photographs illustrating various native classes, occupations, &c....Native jugglers,' by Nicholas & Curths, shown at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873 (J. Forb...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

227. Photo 1000/66(5754)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/66(5754)
Title:
Two musicians playing a duet with tabla and tambura, Bengal. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
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).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

228. Photo 1000/66(5755)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/66(5755)
Title:
Musicians with khole, kartal and singeh, Bengal. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
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).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

229. Photo 1000/66(5756)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/66(5756)
Title:
Musical quintet, Bengal. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group with instruments seated in front of the same building seen in print 5755. The instruments are identified as two types of drum (nagara and damama), a cymbal-like instrument (kartala), and two types of oboe-like wind instruments (sahanai).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

230. Photo 1000/66(5757)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/66(5757)
Title:
Musical quintet, Bengal. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of musicians (the same figures seen in print 5756, and posed in front of the same building), with instruments. These are identified as a small pair of drums (tabla), three oboe-like instruments (sahanai) and small cymbals (manjira).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

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