Photo 972, 7(365)

Genre: Ethnographical Photography

Full-length standing portrait of a man and a woman. 'The male figure represented is Nar Singh, a private in the Malwah Bheel corps. He has been drilled, and has lost his original wild appearance. The Bheels of Jhabooa are, however, of an industrious class, cultivating the ground, selling grass, firewood, and jungle produce, and thus earning a decent livelihood...His wife, Chundi, is five feet in height; she is twenty years old, and is well dressed for her station; she wears a sari, printed blue and white, with an ornamented bodice, a dark blue petticoat of strong cotton cloth, with a scarlet border of a double stripe. Her legs, from the knees down to the feet, are encased in rings of brass, to the upper one of which...is fastened a string of bells, which tinkle as she walks, and she carries her child in a fold of her sari...'

Subjects = Bhils (ethnic group); ethnic groups; printed books; Watson and Kaye, 'People of India' (8 vols, 1868-75); Watson and Kaye, 'People of India' (vol 7, 1872)