VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS

India including tribal portraits, possibly from the Naga region, 1880s-90s

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VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS
India including tribal portraits, possibly from the Naga region, 1880s-90s
Album containing seventy-two photographs, the majority albumen prints, sizes from 4 x 5½ in. to 7 x 11¼ in., variously mounted, the first dated 1884 in pencil on mount, half red calf (spine damaged and a few pages disbound), oblong 4to.; with a few photographs loosely inserted.

Lot Essay

Sixteen group portraits of westerners in India seated outdoors (one illus.) including one with tennis rackets; pond views; seventeen village scenes in north eastern India, possibly the Naga region including portraits of weavers, basket-makers and water-carriers and five group portraits.

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