An Indian Nautch [Delhi]. Photographer: Shepherd, Charles
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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,...
Another group of the same [Hindoo dancing girls, probably at Secunderabad]. Photographer: Scott, Allan Newton
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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
Hindoo dancing girls [probably at Secunderabad]. Photographer: Scott, Allan Newton
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Stereo half. Similar to print 70, but with pose re-arranged. In the list of prints at the beginning of the volume, this plate is incorrectly captioned 'The same [ie dancing girls] playing cards'. Subjects = nautches; stereoscopic prints
Dancing girl. Hindoo. Sind. Photographer: Tanner, Henry Charles Baskerville
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Photograph probably by Tanner, possibly by William Robert Houghton. Oval image. Full-length standing portrait: 'The principal class of dancing women in Sind is called Kanyari. Each has her own house, and is usually married pro forma to one of her musicians; but...