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151. Photo 972, 1(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 1(4)
Title:
Mullick. Soonee Mahomedan. Behar. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Head and shoulders full-face portrait. Oval image. 'The Mullicks are considered by other tribes of Mahomedans a distinct race...but learned Mahomedans suppose that they were degenerate Hindoo Rajpoots who embraced Islam in the reign of Mahomed Ghoree. There is,...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

152. Photo 972, 1(12)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 1(12)
Title:
Dome. Hindoo (outcast). Behar. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Head and shoulders profile portrait. Oval image. '...They are found in every village in Behar, though they have fixed habitations nowhere...They make bamboo baskets, mats, and chicks, or blinds, by which they earn about two annas per diem; but are so fond of dr...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

153. Photo 972, 2(75)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 2(75)
Title:
Moormis. Tibetans. Nipal. Photographer: Simpson, Benjamin
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Half-length quarter-profile portrait of a young man. Oval image, faded. Subjects = ethnic groups; Moormis; printed books; Watson and Kaye, 'People of India' (8 vols, 1868-75); Watson and Kaye, 'People of India' (vol 2, 1868)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1861
Extent:
1 item

154. Photo 972, 3(111)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 3(111)
Title:
Thakoors. Hindoo Rajpoots, Shahjehanpore. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length standing portrait of two men. 'The particular class photographed here belongs to the Hutteea Rajpoots, who refused to bow to the King of Delhi. Their chief occupations are military service and agriculture, and they are not migratory...They ar egener...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

155. Photo 972, 4(179)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 4(179)
Title:
Bustee. Hindoo. Hissar. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length portrait, seated cross-legged on a carpet. 'The subject illustrated, it will be observed, has the strong bold features of Rajpoots in general, as befits the descendant of a pure Aryan tribe. Hindoo Ranghurs are agriculturalists for the most part, an...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

156. Photo 972, 8(452)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 8(452)
Title:
Polayers. Slave Caste. Travancore. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length standing portrait of a man and a woman. '...Principally located in the Travancore province, and are evidently one of the aboriginal tribes belonging to the forest races of the south-western portion of the peninsula; not now wild, as they once were, ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

157. Photo 972, 8(463)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 8(463)
Title:
Burman. Lower Provinces. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Oval image. Vignetted head and shoulders portrait of a Burmese man. Subjects = Burmese (ethnic group); ethnic groups; printed books; 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

158. Photo 972, 4(206)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 4(206)
Title:
Famine stricken group. Delhi. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Presumably victims of the famine of 1860-61. Subjects = disasters; famine; printed books; Watson and Kaye, 'People of India' (8 vols, 1868-75); Watson and Kaye, 'People of India' (vol 4, 1869)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1862
Extent:
1 item

159. Photo 972, 2(99)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 2(99)
Title:
Koeree. Low caste tribe, possibly aboriginal. Goruckpoor. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Portrait of two men squatting beside a path in a garden. 'Koeree is the name given in Behar and ther North-Western Provinces to a Hindoo caste, which, under different denominations in different provinces...is to be found all over India...The Koerees apply thems...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

160. Photo 972, 3(132)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 3(132)
Title:
Poorun Sing. Hindoo Rajpoot: Bais tribe. Allyghur. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length portrait, seated cross-legged. Oval image. 'Poorun Sing is a Hindoo inhabitant of Godha, district Allyghur, where the tribe to which he belongs has lived for hundreds of years. They are landowners, and support themselves by the proceeds of their pro...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item