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.
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 ...
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).
Non-photographic: Watercolour by a Bombay artist showing the process of weaving.
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Shown at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873. See Mildred Archer, 'Company drawings in the India Office Library' (HMSO, London, 1972), p. 248, catalogue no. 201 (ii).