Title(s)

Portrait of two unknown men with muskets from the Storyani tribe of Kohat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Object type

• photograph

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1122E-30

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘(256)’
• inscription, q: ‘OOSTERANEES./ PATHAN FRONTIER TRIBE./ SOONNEE MUSSULMANS./ DERAJAT./ KOHAT.’

Description

De Storyani-stam is ook bekend als Ustrani.

Artist

• anonymous

Place

Kohat

Dating

c. 1862 - in or before 1872

Material

• photographic support

Technique

albumen print

Measurements

height 115 mm × width 87 mm

What

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

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)