Title(s)

Three unknown men sitting on the ground from the Newar community of Nepal

Object type

• photograph
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1122B-18

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘(73)’
• inscription: ‘NEWAR GROUP./ SLAVE POPULATION./ SUPPOSED ABORIGINAL./ NIPAL.’

Artist

• photographer: Benjamin Simpson (possibly)

Place

Nepal

Dating

c. 1858 - in or before 1868

Material

• photographic support

Technique

albumen print

Measurements

height 139 mm × width 197 mm

What

• human races; peoples; nationalities
• kitchen-utensils: pot

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 Volume two (RP-F-2001-7-1122B)