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1181. Photo 1000/52(4901)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4901)
Title:
Worker preparing thread for sari weaving. Photographer: Narayen, Shivashanker
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

1182. Photo 1000/52(4903)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4903)
Title:
Man operating a silk loom, Ghotal, Midnapur. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1873
Extent:
1 item

1183. Photo 1000/52(4905)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4905)
Title:
Sari weaving, Western India. Photographer: Narayen, Shivashanker
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Man weaving with loom arranged on the verandah of a house. Photograph unsigned, but this is probably one of the series of views showing the processes of the manufacture of cotton fabrics shown at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873. See J. Forbes Watson, Vienna Unive...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1873
Extent:
1 item

1184. Photo 1000/52(4906)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4906)
Title:
Carpet weavers in Karachi Jail. Photographer: Michie and Company
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Line of carpet weavers seated at their looms in a shed. Portion of exhibition label from the Vienna Exhibition of 1873 on reverse of mount.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1873
Extent:
1 item

1185. Photo 1000/52(4907)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4907)
Title:
Carpet weavers in Karachi Jail, working on carpet sent to the Vienna Exhibition. Photographer: Michie and Company
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1873
Extent:
1 item

1186. Photo 1000/52(4909)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4909)
Title:
Dyers at work, Western India. Photographer: Narayen, Shivashanker
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of dyers posed beside vats. This is probably the photograph shown at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873, and described in the catalogue as follows: 'The vats are of clay, and built in as shown in the picture. The furnace goes right under the vat, the fuel used...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1873
Extent:
1 item

1187. Photo 1000/52(4910)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4910)
Title:
Cloth stamper, Western India. Photographer: Narayen, Shivashanker
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Cloth stamper seated at a low table on the verandah of a house. This is probably the photograph shown at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873, and described in the catalogue as follows: 'Printing...This is done by wooden stamps, which are charged with the colouring ma...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1873
Extent:
1 item

1188. Photo 1000/52(4911)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4911)
Title:
Silk design knotters. Photographer: Narayen, Shivashanker
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Three figures seated at work on a verandah. Probably an exhibition photograph, unsigned but possibly by Shivashanker Narayen.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1873
Extent:
1 item

1189. Photo 1000/52(4912)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4912)
Title:
Gold puggree border weavers. Photographer: Narayen, Shivashanker
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1873
Extent:
1 item

1190. Photo 1000/52(4913)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4913)
Title:
Zunlozis, Gold lace makers, Delhi. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Man seated at loom, watched by a figure seated at his side. The following letterpress description, probably extracted from an exhibition catalogue, is laid down on the page beneath the print: 'No. 6. - Zunlozis or scarf weavers. - These are sometime Mussulmans,...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1863
Extent:
1 item