Khols people, posing with bow and arrows.

  • Bourne & Shepherd
Date:
[approximately 1890]
Reference:
3307411i
Part of:
The Fallaize Collection.
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About this work

Description

A group portrait of thirteen Khol men and youths posed with bows and arrows in the open, probably photographed in modern-day Bihar. The photograph is unsigned, but the Bourne & Shepherd catalogue number 3038 can just be made out on the print.

Publication/Creation

[approximately 1890]

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint

Lettering

Bears number 3038

Notes

This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 3307411i

Ownership note

Originally collected by British anthropologist Edwin Nichol Fallaize (1877-1957). Purchased by Capt. L.W.G. Malcolm in 1934, on behalf of Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome, for the price of £25. From a letter in the Wellcome archives dated 16th December 1934.

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