Nagar Brahman Women [Bombay]. Photographer: Johnson, William
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Subjects = Brahmins (caste); ethnic groups; Johnson, 'The oriental races and tribes...' (vol 1, 1863); photomontage; women
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of five Parsi men, against a photomontaged landscape background. Subjects = ethnic groups; Johnson, 'The oriental races and tribes...' (vol 1, 1863); Parsees; photomontage
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group portrait. See Karsandas Mulji, 'History of the sect of Maharajas, or Vallabhacharyas, in Western India' (London, 1865), where this group portrait is reproduced as a steel engraved frontispiece. Subjects = ethnic groups; Johnson, 'The oriental races and tribes....
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length portrait of two men. The background, in the form of a rocky landscape with the ruins of a fort wall, has been painted onto the negative. Subjects = Bhats (ethnic group); ethnic groups; Johnson, 'The oriental races and tribes...' (vol 1, 1863); photomonta...
Banian Women [Bombay]. Photographer: Johnson, William
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length portrsit of two women, posed against a wooden fence, with a photomontaged backround of the Jabreshwar Temple at the Banganga Tank, Bombay. Subjects = Banians; ethnic groups; Johnson, 'The oriental races and tribes...' (vol 1, 1863); photomontage; women