Caption

Batakk women (top), Rice pounding Batakk women (bottom), Two portraits of Batak girls (top) and group portrait of rice-pounding Batak women (bottom) on Sumatra, photomechanical print, Part of Album with heliogravures of Sumatra's east coast., number: '51', photographer: Carl J. Kleingrothe, Sumatra, cliché maker: Johann Baptist Obernetter, Munich, in or before 1898, Carl J. Kleingrothe, Johann Baptist Obernetter, photographer, cliché maker, Bavaria, paper, photoaquatint, heliogravure, height 157 mm x width 101 mm, height 157 mm x width 100 mm, height 130 mm x width 220 mm, adult woman, adolescent, young woman, maiden, A vertical composite image divided into three photographic scenes showing people in traditional dress outdoors; the top left shows a young person standing on grassy ground wearing a wrapped garment and a head covering with decorative circular ear ornaments, one foot resting on a rock and hands relaxed by the sides; the top right shows a person standing barefoot on a dirt surface holding a large flat rectangular tray with both hands, wearing a wrapped garment and a head covering with similar circular ear ornaments, with a thatched structure visible in the background; the lower scene shows a group of people gathered around and on a raised wooden platform and a long canoelike boat among dense tropical vegetation, many holding long poles and wearing wrapped garments and head coverings, some seated and some standing on the platform and boat, with banana leaves and tall grasses surrounding them.

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Photo12/Liszt Collection

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LZT26B09_482

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Keywords

Batakk women top Rice pounding bottom Two portraits Batak girls group portrait rice-pounding Batak women Sumatra photomechanical print Part Album heliogravures Sumatra's east coast number 51 photographer Carl J Kleingrothe cliché maker Johann Baptist Obernetter Munich 1898 Bavaria paper photoaquatint heliogravure height 157 mm x width 101 mm 100 mm height 130 mm x 220 mm adult woman adolescent young woman maiden vertical composite image divided three photographic scenes showing people traditional dress outdoors top left young person standing grassy ground wearing wrapped garment head covering decorative circular ear ornaments foot resting rock hands relaxed sides top right person standing barefoot dirt surface holding large flat rectangular tray hands wearing circular ear ornaments thatched structure visible background lower scene group people gathered raised wooden platform long canoelike boat dense tropical vegetation holding long poles wrapped garments head coverings seated platform boat banana leaves tall grasses surrounding them