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A Borah Merchant, Bombay

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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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Cataloguing data

Object type
Photography
Dimensions
Height: 23,7 cm
Width: 19 cm
Height: 34 cm
Width: 29 cm
Material/Technique
on cardboard
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VIII C 8034

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1885
    where
    India
    Maharashtra
    Bombay
  • Collecting
    who
    Starke - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    South and Southeast Asia

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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