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91. Photo 1000/42(4398)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4398)
Title:
Kotas playing and dancing, Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Posed group of musicians and dancers. Variant of plate xviii of James Wilkinson Breeks, An account of the primitive tribes and monuments of the Nilagiris (India Museum, London, 1873), evidently taken on the same occasion, but with figures posed slightly differently.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

92. Photo 1000/42(4399)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4399)
Title:
Kurumbas, with house, Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Group of three women and a man seated in front of a thatched Kurumba house. Note wall-painting on exterior of house. Duplicate of print 1119.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

93. Photo 1000/42(4424c)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4424c)
Title:
Full-length portrait of a man, seated on a wicker stool, Aden. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
This is the same sitter as seen in the preceding print (4424b).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 b/w print

94. Photo 1000/42(4395)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4395)
Title:
Group of Kota men and women, Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Group of men and women posed in front of a thatched house. Variant of plate xv of James Wilkinson Breeks, An account of the primitive tribes and monuments of the Nilagiris (India Museum, London, 1873), evidently taken on the same occasion, but with figures posed slightly differently.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

95. Photo 1000/42(4394)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4394)
Title:
Todas with clubs, etc., Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Group of four Toda men, carrying spears and clubs. One figure appears to be playing a flute-like instrument, while the crouching figure on the left holds a stringed instrument. Duplicate of print 1107.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

96. Photo 1000/42(4344)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4344)
Title:
Full-length seated portrait of Saiyid Majid, Sultan of Zanzibar. Photographer: Hurrichund Chintamon.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1862
Extent:
1 b&w print

97. Photo 1000/42(4373)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4373)
Title:
Portrait of Prince Oomdut-Ood-Dawlah, son of Prince of Prince Azim Jah Bahadoor, Madras. Photographer: Madras School of Industrial Arts
Scope & Content:
Full-length standing studio portrait, the subject holding a long sword and leaning against a table. This print has been inserted in this album (volume 39) in error. It should more correctly have been placed in volume 43.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

98. Photo 1000/42(4388)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4388)
Title:
Group portrait of representatives of the five hills tribes of the Nilgiris: Irulas, Badagas, Todas, Kotas, Kurumbas. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Group portrait, with two representatives from each of the fives tribes, posed in front of a tent with characteristic artefacts (weapons, musical instruments, etc). With measuring rod placed to one side.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

99. Photo 1000/42(4337)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4337)
Title:
Andamanese group with Mr Homfray, their keeper, photographed at Calcutta. Photographer: Saché and Westfield
Scope & Content:
Portrait of seven Andamanese youths and Jeremiah Nelson Homfray, Superintendent of the Andamanese Orphanage. Oval image. The Andamanese were brought to Calcutta, where they were displayed to the members of the Asiatic Society, before being taken to the studio of Saché and Westfield, where they w...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1865
Extent:
1 item