A young Indian man, naked but for a loincloth, carrying a bag and a clapper, in a studio setting.

Date:
[approximately 1900]
Reference:
535927i
Part of:
The Fallaize Collection.
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Description

He is smeared with ashes

Publication/Creation

[approximately 1900]

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint

Lettering

Bears number: 345

Notes

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

Reference

Wellcome Collection 535927i

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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