Title(s)

Portrait of an unknown woman from the Meitei community of Manipur

Object type

• photograph

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1122A-41

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘(40)’
• inscription: ‘MUNIPOOREE FEMALE./ HIMALAYAN ORIGIN./ MUNIPOOR.’

Artist

• Benjamin Simpson (possibly)

Place

Manipur

Dating

c. 1858 - in or before 1868

Material

• photographic support

Technique

albumen print

Measurements

height 175 mm × width 129 mm

What

• human races; peoples; nationalities

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

Acquisition

purchase 2001

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• The people of India : a series of photographic illustrations, with descriptive letterpress, of the races and tribes of Hindustan (RP-F-2001-7-1122A)