Woman with water vessel (studio reconstruction)

Photographer: Unknown
Medium: Photographic print
Date: 1873

Studio reconstruction of a woman carrying a water-vessel in India, taken by an unknown photographer in c. 1873, from the Archaeological Survey of India. After photography was introduced into India in the 1840s it rapidly grew in popularity, particularly as a means to record the vast diversity of people and their dress, manners, trades, customs and religions.
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