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A Borah Merchant, Bombay

The man is wearing a shirt (jubba), pyjamas, headgear and an almost ankle-length coat, which is very elaborately embroidered, presumably with zari thread. He wears a ring on the little finger of his right hand. With his left hand he is leaning against a chair. From K.S. Singh (1998: 514): "The typical dress of the Bohra males is a shirt (jubba), pyjama, half-jacket and a white cap with golden zari, [...]." Full-body portrait of an apparently wealthy man in a photo studio

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
Photography
Dimensions
Bildformat (Foto): 23,7 x 19 cm
Kartonformat (Foto): 34 x 29 cm
Material/Technique
on cardboard
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VIII C 8034

Provenance and sources

when
1885
where
India [Land]
Maharashtra [Bundesstaat]
Bombay [Stadt]

who
Starke - Collectors

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