Title(s)

Portrait of an unknown nomadic trader from the Powindah tribe of Kohat, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Object type

• photograph

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1122E-35

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘(264)’
• inscription
• inscription: ‘POVINDAH./ ITINERANT AFGHAN MERCHANT./ SOONNEE MAHOMEDAN./ GUNDAPOOR.’

Description

De Powindah-stam is ook bekend als Kochi.

Artist

• anonymous

Place

Kohat

Dating

1861

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)