Title(s)

Portraits of Meer Allum Khan, Nowrung Khan and Mahomed Gool Khan, three chiefs from the Gandapur tribe of Kohat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Object type

• photograph

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1122E-33

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘(259),/ (260), (261)’
• inscription: ‘MEER ALLUM KHAN./ NOWRUNG KHAN. MAHOMED GOOL KHAN./ GUNDAPOORS./ PATHAN FRONTIER TRIBE./ SOONNEE MAHOMEDANS./ KOHAT.’

Artist

• anonymous

Place

Kohat

Dating

c. 1862 - in or before 1872

Material

• photographic support

Technique

albumen print

Measurements

height 333 mm × width 240 mm

What

• human races; peoples; nationalities
• head-gear: turban
• ruler, sovereign
• hacking and thrusting weapons (with NAME)

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)