Benares (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh: a human cadaver abandoned in the water being examined by a dog. Photograph.

Date:
[1900?]
Reference:
47693i
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Description

"A dog chewing unburnt bits [of human cadaver]" and "a dog pulls at a corpse in a river" are shown in photographs of Benares by Michael Ackerman in his book End time city, Zurich 1999, according to review in Times Literary Supplement 7 January 2000 pp. 4-5 (cf. also Richard Lannoy, Benares seen from within, Bath 1999, reviewed in the same article)

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified], [1900?]

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 15.2 x 20.4 cm

Notes

On same mount as this catalogue nos. 47691i and 47692i

Reference

Wellcome Collection 47693i

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