Stereoscopic view of a bullock-drawn water cart, Bombay Presidency. Photographer: Newton, Henry
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Small two-wheeled cart with water barrel. 'Photo by W. Griggs 1871. From a negative lent by H. Norman, Esq. late of Bombay 16/10/71. [Print received?] 24.1.72.'
Cotton stacks and 'churka' or cotton gin in operation, Berar. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Industrial Photography Showing a group of workers posed among piles of cotton. In the middleground two women operate a small churka or gin, while in the foreground a man is posed with a spinning wheel. Photograph 'Enclosed in India Foreign Revenue Letter no. 23 Dec 22/66. Recd. Feb. 1867.'
Women with curry stone and raggy mill, Madras. Photographer: Nicholas and Curths
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Showing two women, one crushing spices, the other grinding raggy (a grain cultivated as a staple in food in Southern India) between two millstones. Photographer's name on mount. From the series of 'Photographs illustrating various native classes, occupations, &...
Toda green funeral, Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Toda group, with sacrificed buffaloes (the herd of the deceased) in the foreground. The ceremony is described in detail on pp. 19-23. plate xiv of James Wilkinson Breeks, 'An account of the primitive tribes and monuments of the Nilagiris' (India Museum, London,...