Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of five Parsi men, against a photomontaged landscape background. Subjects = ethnic groups; Johnson, 'The oriental races and tribes...' (vol 1, 1863); Parsees; photomontage
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of five men, posed against a photomontaged backdrop showing the Mahtar Mahal at Bijapur. 'The Mehmans...are converts to the Suni form of the Muhammadan religion, principally from the agricultural and mercantile classes of the Hindus of Kutch and Kathiawar...
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of two men, a youth and a child, posed against a photomontaged background of a view of Bombay. 'The Khojahs of the West of India are converts to the Shia form of the Muhammedan faith from the Hindu natives of Gujarat, Kathiawar, and Kutch, made principall...
Muhammadan Women of Surat [at Bombay]. Photographer: Johnson, William
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of three women, posed against a photomontaged landscape background. 'Our photograph represents individuals of the middle classes of society, in their ordinary dress, whichis of a much more modest character than that of many Indian females.' Subjects = e...
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of three men, posed against a photomontaged landscape background. 'The Bohoras, properly so called, are a sect of Muhammadans...Most of the Bohoras are pedlars, shopkeepers, and workers in iron and tin. Numbers of them, however - particularly in the distr...