Title(s)

Portrait of three unknown men from the Mahsud tribe of Kohat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Object type

• photograph

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1122E-29

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘(255)’
• inscription: ‘MAHSOOD WUZEEREES./ AFGHAN FRONTIER TRIBE./ SOONNEE MUSSULMANS./ GUNDAPOOR./ KOHAT.’

Artist

• anonymous

Place

Kohat

Dating

c. 1862 - in or before 1872

Material

• photographic support

Technique

albumen print

Measurements

height 111 mm × width 90 mm

What

• human races; peoples; nationalities
• head-gear: turban

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 five (RP-F-2001-7-1122E)