Sujet

A group of men lower the body of a dead man on to a pyre of logs prior to a Hindu..., 1896/1897. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

A group of men lower the body of a dead man on to a pyre of logs prior to a Hindu cremation ceremony in Bombay at the time of the plague, 1896/1897.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM25A35_010

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NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

55,7Mo (7,1Mo) / 42,0cm x 33,3cm / 4960 x 3928 (300dpi)

Mots clés

standing people male group man men health ceremony Asian India Asia historical lifting religious Indian country religion fence guy preparation continent ceremonial death photography ritual Hinduism location disaster century Bombay Mumbai maharashtra plague empire sickness sick catastrophe preparing disease photograph charity concept Hindu photo enclosure B&W corpse funeral preparations epidemic contagion 19th century black & white black and white B W locals diseased Local People 1890s nineteenth century South Asian history historic 1896 Black Death British Empire British Raj Bubonic Plague charitable institution cremation funeral pyre Hindoostan imperialism pyre Raj TGN photograph pandemic Unknown The Raj British India Heritage Art 19th-century research centre Wellcome Collection Wellcome Research Institute Wellcome Trust