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(INDIA)

Group of 223 photographs comprising images of the Naga people (cannibal headhunters in northern India), villagers with decorated human skulls, many occupational images, school children, architecture, landscapes, British missionaries, and various other locations in India including the Taj Mahal by underwood & underwood, and 3 safari images by bourne & shepherd. Printing-out paper (212), silver prints (7), photographic post cards (4), 6 1/2x4 3/4 to 2x3 1/2 inches (16.5x12.1 to 5.1x8.9 cm.), 55 on black paper, mounted recto/verso, with handwritten captions, in pencil, on mount; 120 cornered to archival paper with notations, in pencil, on mat verso; 43 loose, many with notations, in pencil, on verso. 1890s-1920s

  • Notes: From the collection of Ira Richer.

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October 21, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
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