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Women clearing weeds

Women clearing weeds

Photographer: Unknown

Medium: Photographic print

Date: 1895

Shelfmark: Photo 15/10(32)

Item number: 32

Length: 14.9

Width: 20.4

Scale: Centimetres

Genre: Photograph

Photograph of a row of women working in field in the modern state of Jammu and Kashmir, probably near the capital of Srinagar. The photograph dates to the 1890s. Jammu and Kashmir is a Himalayan region in north-western India famous for its mountain scenery and lakes. Kashmiris work mainly on the land, producing crops and tending animals.

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