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41. Photo 972, 4(213)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 4(213)
Title:
Kunyt women. Hindoo and Buddhist. Simla. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Three-quarter length standing portrait. Oval image. 'Some of the Kunyt girls are decidedly pretty, with ruddy complexions, and those represented in the photograph are perhaps fair specimens of their class.' Subjects = ethnic groups; Kunyts; printed books; Wat...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

42. Photo 972, 4(214)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 4(214)
Title:
Goorkha, Brahmin, and Sood. Hindoos. Simla. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length standing studio portrait of the three figures. 'Members of the three principal classes in Nipal are here represented. The short, square figure on the proper right [ie left as viewed] of the group is a Goorkha...The middle figure of the group is a Ni...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

43. Photo 972, 4(215)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 4(215)
Title:
Cashmiri. From Cashmere. Mussulman. Simla. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Subjects = ethnic groups; Kashmiris; 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:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

44. Photo 972, 4(190)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 4(190)
Title:
Baories. Bird catchers. Low caste Hindoos. Delhi. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group posed in the act of setting as trap using nets: 'The figure in the photograph has just set up his net for hares; and in fields or uncultivated places he would fasten one end of a long net to a bush while his wife would hold the other under cover, the midd...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1862
Extent:
1 item

45. Photo 972, 4(205)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 4(205)
Title:
Jogis. Snake charmers. Hindoos of low caste. Delhi. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography 'The photograph displays two of the tribe exhibiting cobra capellas, or nags, and playing to them upon an instrument made of a gourd of a peculiar shape...The sound is like that of a flageolet...Strange as it may seem, the hooded snakes appear to delight in the...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1862
Extent:
1 item

46. Photo 972, 4(194)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 4(194)
Title:
Nuts. Jugglers and acrobats. Low caste Hindoos. Delhi. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography 'The present photograph has been selected because it shows a group of Nuts, in the act of performance of legerdemain tricks, in which they are very expert...' Subjects = acrobats; entertainers; ethnic groups; jugglers; Nuts; printed books; Watson and Kaye, 'P...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1862
Extent:
1 item

47. Photo 972, 4(195)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 4(195)
Title:
Sanseeas. Vagrants, of no particular creed. Delhi. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of a man and two women. Oval imageThe Sanseeas are here characterized as an itinerant criminal tribe, 'essentially outcasts, admitted to no other caste fellowship, ministered to by no priests, without any ostensible calling or profession, totally ignorant...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1862
Extent:
1 item

48. Photo 972, 4(218)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 4(218)
Title:
Seeba Rajah and suite. Trans-Sutlej States [Kangra District, Himachal Pradesh]. Hindoos. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Subjects = Indian rulers; 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:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

49. Photo 972, 4(208)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 4(208)
Title:
Rae Doona Chund. Banker. Jain Surongie. Simla. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length seated portrait. Oval image. 'Rae Doona Chund is a native gentleman of the same Jain sect as Shadi Seth above alluded to [print 153], and, like him, is a banker and merchant of great respectability. In the year 1857 he proved his devotion to the Bri...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

50. Photo 972, 4(209)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 972, 4(209)
Title:
Pundit Jowalla Nath. Brahmin. Saharunpoor [sic for Shimla?]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length seated portrait, full-face. Oval image. 'The gentleman here represented is a fine specimen of his class, a secular Brahmin, in the service of Government...The Pundit is, or was, tehsildar, or collector of revenue of the Roorkee district. He is a nat...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item