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Photo 972, 8(450)
- Record Id:
- 041-003298113
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003297643
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028276000.0x0003a4
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 972, 8(450)
- Title:
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Chumars. Hindoos. Madras. Photographer: Unknown
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography
Oval image. Group of three squatting figures (two women and a man). 'The Chumars are the very lowest grade of Hindoo caste, and act as tanners, cobblers, and rough shoe and sandal makers. They are evidently of the aboriginal tribes of India, as is shown by their habits and features every where in the south, which have a strong affinity to those of the unreclaimed jungle tribes of the lowest grades...The group shown in the photograph is common in every fair or village market. The master of the family sits on the ground, cobbling shoes or sandals, with his lapstone beside him; his daughter (or it may be his wife), with all her tools beside her; and an old woman beyond (perhaps his wife), with a pile of strong shoes for sale...'
Subjects = Chumars (caste); ethnic groups; occupations; printed books; shoemakers; Watson and Kaye, 'People of India' (8 vols, 1868-75); Watson and Kaye, 'People of India' (vol 8, 1875)
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003297643
040-003298068
041-003298113 - Is part of:
- Photo 972 : 'The People of India' (8 vols, London, 1868-75)
Photo 972, 8 : The People of India. A series of photographic illustrations, with descriptive letterpress, of the races and tribes of Hindustan.…
Photo 972, 8(450) : Chumars. Hindoos. Madras. Photographer: Unknown - Hierarchy:
- 032-003297643[0008]/040-003298068[0045]/041-003298113
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 972
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Start Date:
- 1860
- End Date:
- 1869
- Date Range:
- 1860s
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, Tamil Nādu, India, Asia