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1. Add Or 656-679

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 656-679
Title:
Add.Or.656-679 24 mica paintings depicting occupations, methods of transport, hunting scenes, festivals and Indian scenes. By a Trichinopoly artist, c ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.656-679 24 mica paintings depicting occupations, methods of transport, hunting scenes, festivals and Indian scenes. By a Trichinopoly artist, c.1850. Inscribed on old mounts with notes. Gouache on mica; 4 by 6 ins. Presented by the Rev. M.S. Douglas, 3 August 1954.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1849-1851
Extent:
24 items

2. Add Or 669

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 669
Title:
Carpenters.
Scope & Content:
Carpenters. Inscribed: ‘Native Carpenters at Work. A correct representation.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

3. Add Or 658

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 658
Title:
Marriage customs.
Scope & Content:
Marriage customs. Inscribed: ‘High Caste Natives. Friends bringing Presents to a Newly Married Pair.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

4. Add Or 671

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 671
Title:
Water-carrier.
Scope & Content:
Water-carrier. Inscribed: ‘1. Native standing on, & leaning over a well Water. 2. Water Carrier, with Bullock and water carrier on either side.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

5. Add Or 676

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 676
Title:
Snake-charmers.
Scope & Content:
Snake-charmers. Inscribed: ‘A Group of Native Serpent Charmers. Nothing would give a Stranger a better idea of the reality than this representation.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

6. Add Or 670

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 670
Title:
Irrigating with bullocks
Scope & Content:
Irrigating with bullocks. Inscribed: ‘Bullocks drawing water out of a Well for watering a garden.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

7. Add Or 656

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 656
Title:
Buttermilk-sellers
Scope & Content:
Buttermilk-sellers. Inscribed: ‘Native Rest House for Travellers with Native Women selling Moar or Buttermilk to Travellers.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

8. Add Or 678

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 678
Title:
Muharram Festival.
Scope & Content:
Muharram Festival. Inscribed: ‘A Mohammedan Procession commemorative (as far as I can judge) of some event connected with the Subjugation of the Natives of India who are represented in a ridiculous and degrading light, & bound together with Chains. The Man on the Camel & the [ones] dre...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

9. Add Or 679

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 679
Title:
Hook-swinging festival (Charak Puja).
Scope & Content:
Hook-swinging Festival ‘(Charak Puja).’ Inscribed: ‘Churnick Poojah or Swinging Festival. Requires to be surounded with a dense crowd of delighted spectators to give anything like an idea of the reality, but still strikingly correct so far as it is given.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

10. Add Or 660

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 660
Title:
Fish-seller.
Scope & Content:
Fish-sellers. Inscribed: ‘Natives with their Fish exposed for sale on a hair Blanket spread on the ground & a Woman making a bargain.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item