Nautch girls, Hyderabad. Photographer: Hooper and Western
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Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of two young women, one reclining on a couch, her companion seated beside her; with three arched openings looking onto a courtyard in the background.
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).