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Photo 181(58)
- Record Id:
- 040-003054986
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003054928
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100025702187.0x00024b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100144466321.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 181(58)
- Title:
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Suttee pillar at a Benares burning Ghat, where Hindu widows died on husbands' funeral pyres. Photographer: Ricalton, James A
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Landscape Photography
View looking along ghat, with low pillar in foreground. Stereoscopic pair.
Subjects = funerals; funerary practices (Hindu); ghats; rites and customs; rites and customs (Hindu); sati; sati stones; stereoscopic prints
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003054928
040-003054986 - Is part of:
- Photo 181 : The Underwood Travel Library: Stereoscopic Views of India. Photographer(s): Ricalton, James A
Photo 181(58) : Suttee pillar at a Benares burning Ghat, where Hindu widows died on husbands' funeral pyres. Photographer: Ricalton, James A - Hierarchy:
- 032-003054928[0058]/040-003054986
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 181
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100144466321.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-

- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Start Date:
- 1902
- End Date:
- 1904
- Date Range:
- c 1903
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known
- Names:
- Ricalton, James A, 1844-1929
- Places:
- Benares, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, Asia