Title(s)

Portrait of four unknown men from the Meena tribe with weapons, Rajasthan, India

Object type

• photograph

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1122G-1

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘341.’
• inscription: ‘PURRIAR MEENAS./ ROBBER TRIBE./ RAJPOOTANA.’

Artist

• Eugene Clutterbuck Impey (possibly)

Place

Rajasthan

Dating

c. 1860 - in or before 1874

Material

• photographic support

Technique

albumen print

Measurements

height 197 mm × width 140 mm

What

• human races; peoples; nationalities
• robber
• 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 seven (RP-F-2001-7-1122G)