Title(s)

Portrait of an unknown man with a spear from the Dowania tribe of Assam

Object type

• photograph
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1122A-34

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘(34)’
• inscription: ‘DOOANEEAH./ MIXED RACE./ ASSAM.’

Artist

• photographer: Benjamin Simpson (possibly)

Place

Assam

Dating

c. 1858 - in or before 1868

Material

• photographic support

Technique

albumen print

Measurements

height 175 mm × width 129 mm

What

• human races; peoples; nationalities
• head-gear: turban
• casting weapons: spear

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

Acquisition

purchase 2001

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• The people of India : a series of photographic illustrations, with descriptive letterpress, of the races and tribes of Hindustan (RP-F-2001-7-1122A)