Title(s)

Portrait of Deena and his cousin Hoseinee, two snake charmers from Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India

Object type

• photograph
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1122B-50

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘(104 A )’
• inscription: ‘DEENA AND NEPHEW HOSEINEE./ SNAKE CHARMERS:/ SOONEE MAHOMEDANS./ ALLAHABAD.’

Description

Prayagraj is ook bekend als Allahabad.

Artist

• photographer: anonymous

Place

Allahabad

Dating

c. 1858 - in or before 1868

Material

• photographic support

Technique

albumen print

Measurements

height 118 mm × width 95 mm

What

• human races; peoples; nationalities
• snakes

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)