Numbered 614 in the negative. Studio portrait of two geishas, one kneeling playing a stringed instrument, the other dancing, with a fan held aloft in her right hand. The two are posed in front of backdrop painted with a traditional scene.
Kashmir was visited by the compiler of this album between 3 April and 30 November 1878. Studio portrait of two women, with two musicians playing string instruments (Santoor).
Numbered B412 in the negative. Kashmir visited by the compiler of this album between 3 April and 30 November 1878. Full-length portrait of a group of three women and a musician with stringed instrument.
Inscribed in Japanese and numbered 483 in the negative. Studio portrait of a Japanese woman, seated with a stringed instrument (a kind of zither) resting on the floor in front of her.
Kashmir nautch girls. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Numbered 607 in the negative. Kashmir was visited by the compiler of this album between 3 April and 30 November 1878. Group of dancing girls and musicians seated on a terrace, probably, like print 149, in the Shalimar Gardens at Srinagar. Listed in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue as 'Group of...