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462. Photo 972, 8(441)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 972, 8(441)
- Title:
- Yenadies. Forest Tribe. Chingleput. Photographer: Unknown
- Scope & Content:
- Genre: Ethnographical Photography Poor quality image. Full-length standing portrait of two men. 'No official report accompanies the photographs of the Yenadies, nor any description of their habits and customs...The photograph shows this tribe to be squalid, and in the last degree uninfluenced b...
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 1860s
- Extent:
- 1 item
463. Photo 972, 8(442)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 972, 8(442)
- Title:
- Yenadies. Forest Tribe. Chingleput. Photographer: Unknown
- Scope & Content:
- Genre: Ethnographical Photography Family group, squatting or seated, with household pots. Subjects = ethnic groups; printed books; Watson and Kaye, 'People of India' (8 vols, 1868-75); Watson and Kaye, 'People of India' (vol 8, 1875); Yenadies
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 1860s
- Extent:
- 1 item
464. Photo 972, 8(443)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 972, 8(443)
- Title:
- Vegetable and Fruit Sellers. Hindoos. Madras. Photographer: Unknown
- Scope & Content:
- Genre: Ethnographical Photography Oval image. Portrait of husband, wife and child, posed behind baskets of vegetables. 'These form a very useful class of market gardeners, who sell the produce of their own gardens in the markets of Madras and other towns and cities...The 'Covent Garden' at Madr...
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 1860s
- Extent:
- 1 item
465. Photo 972, 8(444)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 972, 8(444)
- Title:
- Grass Cutters. Hindoos. Madras. Photographer: Unknown
- Scope & Content:
- Genre: Ethnographical Photography Family group, posed among piles of grass. 'The women grasscutters of Madras are a very industrious and useful race. Many of them are attached to cavalry regiments with regular pay, and their business is to furnish daily a bundle of grass or grass roots, which h...
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 1860s
- Extent:
- 1 item
466. Photo 972, 8(445)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 972, 8(445)
- Title:
- Tailors. Hindoos. Madras. Photographer: Unknown
- Scope & Content:
- Genre: Ethnographical Photography Oval image. Seated group of three tailors at work. Subjects = ethnic groups; occupations; printed books; tailors; Watson and Kaye, 'People of India' (8 vols, 1868-75); Watson and Kaye, 'People of India' (vol 8, 1875)
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 1860s
- Extent:
- 1 item
467. Photo 972, 8(446)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 972, 8(446)
- Title:
- Carpenters. Hindoos. Madras. Photographer: Unknown
- Scope & Content:
- Genre: Ethnographical Photography Oval image. Group of carpenters at work, engaged in making a piece of furniture in European style. 'The operation of turning is shown in the plate: a square frame, consisting of two heavy pieces of wood for sides, with cross pieces which pass through the sides,...
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 1860s
- Extent:
- 1 item
468. Photo 972, 8(447)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 972, 8(447)
- Title:
- Barber. Hindoo. Madras. Photographer: Unknown
- Scope & Content:
- Genre: Ethnographical Photography Barber shaving the head of a customer, who is seated on a charpoy. 'The mode of operation is well shown in the plate: the man being shaved sits on his bedstead, while the barber stands before him, manipulates his skull or his chin with plain warm soft water (so...
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 1860s
- Extent:
- 1 item
469. Photo 972, 8(448)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 972, 8(448)
- Title:
- Blacksmiths. Hindoos. Madras. Photographer: Unknown
- Scope & Content:
- Genre: Ethnographical Photography Oval image. View of three blacksmiths at work. 'The plate represents a blacksmith seated at his forge, accompanied by his bellows boy and hammer man...The tools of an Indian blacksmith are very simple: a few steel faced hammers, including the heavy one used by ...
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 1860s
- Extent:
- 1 item
470. Photo 972, 8(449)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 972, 8(449)
- Title:
- Mallees. Hindoos. Madras. Photographer: Unknown
- Scope & Content:
- Genre: Ethnographical Photography Oval image. Group of three gardeners: 'The men represented are evidently making up their baskets for market: one is selecting them, another is washing them in a tub, and the third is probably pulling beans of a favourite sort, which are universally used, and wh...
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 1860s
- Extent:
- 1 item