Group of musicians posed with drums, gongs and a trumpet-like instrument in front of a European building. Possibly photographed in the Darjeeling area.
[Portrait of a young woman, Eastern Bengal.] Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Three-quarter length portrait of a girl, posed against a plain background, naked to the waist. Second copy neg at B.9386. Exhibited Museum of Sydney, Encountering India, 16 May - 17 August 1997. Exhibited in 'India Through the Lens', Arthur M. Sackler Gallery...
[Scholar with book, Eastern Bengal.] Photographer: Unknown
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Three-quarter length portrait against a plain background of the bespectacled figure of a Muslim scholar posed with a book by an unknown photographer and taken in the early 1860s.
Half-length portrait of a Dandi 'faqir', a Hindu ascetic, taken against a plain background taken by an unknown photographer in the early 1860s. This print is one of a series of portrait studies of individuals and groups from Eastern Bengal (modern Bangladesh and Assam).
This photograph shows a half-length portrait taken by an unknown photographer in the early 1860s of a Kochh Mandai girl, posed holding a broad-bladed agricultural knife and carrying a newly-harvested durian fruit on her head.
Portrait of two male figures, one seated in a European chair, the other standing. Both men hold tambourine-like instruments. A hand and arm can be seen in the background holding a plain photographic backdrop in place.