Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group posed in front of house also seen in prints 5755-5757. The instruments seen are identified as drums (dhaka, dhole, kara, jaya jhampa, nagara and Tashar), and the oboe-like sahanai.
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).
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Studio portrait, posed against a painted backdrop, of a dancing girl and a second woman seated with a drum.
[Portrait of a Japanese dancer and musician.] Photographer: Tamamura, Kohzaburo
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Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Studio portrait, taken against a painted backdrop, of two young Japanese women, one standing in a dance attitude, the other seated on the floor accompanying her on a stringed instrument.
Mehtar of Chitral and his band. Photographer: Unknown
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Snapshot of the Mehtar's band, seated in front of spectators at the Malakand Games of 1913. The Mehtar of Chitral, Shuja-ul-mulk, stands with his back to the camera among the group in the background.
Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of four polo players, seated on horseback, with attendant musicians with drums and pipes standing in front. Prints 29-32 are all taken at the same location and presumably on the same occasion (possibly at Chitral?).
Wedding festivities at Kibber, Spiti: a member of a group of musicians sleeping below the head of a butchered yak after the first night of the wedding. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
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'A member of a group of musicians sleeping after the first night of a traditional wedding in Kibber. The musicians have been playing for nearly twenty four hours, working and sleeping in relays, and are exhausted and drunk. The head of a yak that was butchered for the wedding, is part of the tra...
A party of Buchen, travelling religious performers, leaving the village of Lidang on their way to Lara, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
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'A party of Buchen, travelling religious performers, leaving the village of Lidang on their way to Lara. Buchen can be away from their homes in Pin Valley for months at a time. The sound of Buchen calling back to the villagers echoes through the silence' (Patrick Sutherland).