Tribal tent, Bakhtiari, made of goats' hair. The carpet will be worked on by all the family. Photographer: Sevruguin, Antoine
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Showing a group of men seated on the ground in front of their tent, with a partly completed carpet on a loom at the right. Probably photographed in Khuzestan Province, Iran.
PZ 3727/35 'Establishment of a spinning and weaving industry in Medina with the help of Indian capital'
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The file consists of correspondence concerning the poverty of Hejaz and the establishment of a spinning and weaving industry in Medina with the help of Indian capital. It also includes a translation of an advertisement to pilgrims announcing Medina-made cloth for sale in Mecca. The main corresp...
The blanket weaver — Navaho. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Genre: Portrait Photography View of a Navaho woman seated at a loom out of doors, seen from the rear: 'In Navaho-land blanket looms are in evidence everywhere. In the winter months they are set up in the hogáns, but during the summer they are erected outdoors under an improvised shelter, or, as...
Pima baskets. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Genre: Still Life Photography View of a display of patterned baskets woven by the Pima, arranged as a still-life against a plain backdrop: 'The baskets made by the Pima, Papago, and Qahátika, as well as by their Maricopa neighbors, are practically identical in form and design, but the Maricopa ...
Worker preparing thread for sari weaving. Photographer: Narayen, Shivashanker
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Weaver crouching beside a spinning wheel, paying off thread to to a reel at the right. Photograph not credited, but probably one of the series of views of cotton manufacture shown by Shivashanker Narayen at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873.
Non-photographic: watercolour sketch by a Punjab artist of a weaver at Delhi.
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Shown at the Delhi Exhibition of 1872. See Mildred Archer, 'Company drawings in the India Office Library' (HMSO, London, 1972), p. 227, catalogue no. 189 (ii).