Title(s)

Portrait of an unknown man from the Korama community with a rope used to make a basket or a mat, Mysore, Karnataka, India

Object type

• photograph

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1122H-19

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘424.’
• inscription: ‘KORAMA OR KORWA./ HINDOO./ MYSORE.’

Artist

• anonymous

Place

Mysore

Dating

c. 1865 - in or before 1875

Material

• photographic support

Technique

albumen print

Measurements

height 115 mm × width 94 mm

What

• human races; peoples; nationalities
• handicrafts and industries

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 eight (RP-F-2001-7-1122H)