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Photo 964/1(19)
- Record Id:
- 040-003233175
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003233156
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100026867737.0x000ecb
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 964/1(19)
- Title:
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Waghurees [Bombay]. Photographer: Johnson, William
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography
Group of three men and two women, posed beside a tree, and with a photomontaged landscape background. 'Waghurees are a low caste of Hindoos, most of them originally from Marwar; but who are now found wandering about in every part of Goozerat under various mendicant disguises, the most common of which is that of the Sadhoo. Their legitimate occupation is hunting or snaring game; when disguised, however, they follow the occupation of the mendicats whom they represent...The ordinary dress of the Waghurees, in their hunting capacity, is given in the accompanying picture...Numbers of them have been long settled in Bombay as beggars and street musicians; but it is from among the few who annually visit the island to dispose of the peacocks and wild fowls thay have snared alive that our illustration has been drawn.'
Subjects = ethnic groups; Johnson, 'The oriental races and tribes...' (vol 1, 1863); photomontage; Waghuris (caste)
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003233156
040-003233175 - Is part of:
- Photo 964/1 : William Johnson, 'The Oriental Races and Tribes, Residents and Visitors of Bombay. A Series of Photographs, with…
Photo 964/1(19) : Waghurees [Bombay]. Photographer: Johnson, William - Hierarchy:
- 032-003233156[0019]/040-003233175
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 964/1
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Start Date:
- 1850
- End Date:
- 1859
- Date Range:
- 1850s
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Johnson, William, fl 1850-1869 (Photographer)