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21. Photo 124(15)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 124(15)
Title:
[Portrait of a man, Eastern Bengal.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Half-length standing portrait of a Brahmin. Exhibited in 'India Through the Lens', Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, December 2000 to March 2001. Exhibited in 'India: Pioneering Photographers 1850-1900', Brunei Gallery, London, 11 October - 12 December 2...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

22. Photo 124(69)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 124(69)
Title:
Khols [Kols]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Group of Kol women posed in the open air with baskets and picked flowers. The flowers are unidentified (?possibly crocuses harvested for saffron). Probably photographed in modern-day Bihar. Photograph unisgned, but probably no. 3039 in the Bourne & Shepherd catalogue.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1890s
Extent:
1 item

23. Photo 124(35)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 124(35)
Title:
[Unidentified female group, Eastern Bengal.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Three-quarter length portrait of three women, probably a mother and her two daughters taken by an unknown photographer in the early 1860s.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

24. Photo 124(49)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 124(49)
Title:
[Musicians and dancers, Eastern Bengal.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Circular vignetted image. Full-length portrait of two male musicians carrying a drum and a stringed instrument, and two female dancers. The figures stand in front of the temporary studio in which many of the photographs in this series were taken.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

25. Photo 124(50)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 124(50)
Title:
[unidentified ethnic group, Eastern Bengal.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Circular vignetted image. Full-length portrait of five figures standing or squatting in front of a building, with the temporary studio partially visible at the left.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

26. Photo 124(63)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 124(63)
Title:
[Portrait group, N.E. India.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Three-quarter length studio portrait of two men and a woman. Ethnic group unidentified, but probably from North-East India or Nepal, possibly photographed in the Darjeeling area. Subjects = ethnic groups; unidentified
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1890s
Extent:
1 item

27. Photo 124(11)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 124(11)
Title:
[Woman of Eastern Bengal.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Half-length portrait of a woman, standing with folded arms against a plain background. Hatching marks have been made in the negative on parts of the face and body, probably for reproduction purposes.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

28. Photo 124(46)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 124(46)
Title:
[Unidentified group, Eastern Bengal.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Portrait of six adults and a baby from Bangladesh taken by an unknown photographer in the early 1860s.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

29. Photo 124(52)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 124(52)
Title:
[Snake charmers, Eastern Bengal.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Full-length portrait of nine snake charmers posed with their pipes, baskets and sacks containing the snakes. This print gives a particularly good view in the background of the temporary studio erected by the photographer.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

30. Photo 124(57)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 124(57)
Title:
Chanda [opium] smokers, Eastern Bengal. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Portrait of five opium smokers arranged in a tableau with pipes and other impedimenta in a temporary studio. Chandoo is a prepared extract of opium.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item