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5581. Photo 1000/66(5754)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/66(5754)
Title:
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).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

5582. Photo 1000/66(5755)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/66(5755)
Title:
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).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

5583. Photo 1000/66(5756)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/66(5756)
Title:
Musical quintet, Bengal. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
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).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

5584. Photo 1000/66(5757)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/66(5757)
Title:
Musical quintet, Bengal. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
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).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

5585. Photo 1000/66(5758)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/66(5758)
Title:
Musical octet, Bengal. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

5586. Photo 1000/66(5759)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/66(5759)
Title:
Non-photographic: pen and watercolour sketch of musical instruments.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

5587. Photo 1000/66(5760)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/66(5760)
Title:
Non-photographic: engravings of an Indian bina or guitar, from the 'The working man' of 21 April 1866.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

5588. Photo 1000/66(5761)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/66(5761)
Title:
Non-photographic: lithograph of Indians playing various musical instruments, from Abul Fuzl's Life of Akbar.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

5589. Photo 1000/66(5762)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/66(5762)
Title:
Non-photographic: small lithograph of Nagas playing a long drum, from the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

5590. Photo 1000/66(5763)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/66(5763)
Title:
Kota musical instruments, Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Plate LXXIX of James Wilkinson Breeks, 'An account of the primitive tribes and monuments of the Nilagiris' (India Museum, London, 1873).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

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