Sujet

Calcutta, West Bengal: a man about to scatter material from a bowl on a dead body..., c1880s. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Calcutta, West Bengal: a man about to scatter material from a bowl on a dead body lying on a funeral pyre, watched by women, [between 1800 and 1899?].

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM25A36_333

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

50,5Mo (5,5Mo) / 42,0cm x 30,1cm / 4960 x 3556 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors portrait female women woman people male group man men ceremony Asian India Asia historical religious Indian sitting country religion body bodies science guy continent clothes tradition ceremonial death custom photography dress Calcutta West Bengal Hinduism location century photograph clothing charity concept Hindu photo sari seated APPAREL B&W corpse funeral scattering ethnology 19th century black & white black and white B W locals Local People Sitting On The Ground 1880s anthropology last rites nineteenth century South Asian history historic charitable institution cremation ethnography funeral pyre Hindoostan pyre TGN outside photograph portrait Kolkata Unknown courtyard Heritage Art 19th-century research centre clothing & dress fashion & clothing Wellcome Collection Wellcome Research Institute Wellcome Trust sitting on ground