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Madras, goldsmiths

Portrait of 4 goldsmiths at work. The boy sitting on the left is blowing into the embers of a small furnace with a blowpipe. The man next to him is hammering on something and looking into the camera. The man next to him is holding a small pair of scales and is also looking at the camera. The boy on the right-hand side of the picture is also working with his tools. All 4 are Brahmins, recognisable by the sacred cord. The boys are wearing the characteristic shikha braid of an initiated Brahmin. The men are wearing turbans.

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Cataloguing data

Object type
positives (photographs)
Dimensions
Height: 14,7 cm
Width: 23,4 cm
Height: 23,7 cm
Width: 28,1 cm
Material/Technique
Cardboard box
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VIII C 9433

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    India
    Tamil Nadu
    Madras
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    South and Southeast Asia

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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