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Description: | Full-length portrait, taken in the open air, of a representative of an unidentified tribal man, posed with a stave and a musical instrument. He wears an ornate piece of headgear of many layers. This print, taken by an unknown photographer in the early 1860s, is one of a series of portrait studies of individuals and groups from Eastern Bengal (modern Bangladesh and Assam). It is possible that they were taken in response to the Government of India's call for photographs representing various ethnic types from across the sub-continent. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Unknown | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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