"To do penance and gain merit this man has held up both arms and has become as helpless as a baby." A bald man dressed in rags sits on the floor with his knees bent up to his chest an his arms held above his head. This photograph is from an album prepared by W. K. Norton of The Pilgrims Mission, Benares [Vārānasi].
Authors
- Collection
- International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-82642
- Date published
- 1915/1925
- Dates
- 1915/1925
- Format
- Photographs
- Pages
- photographic prints, 8.6 x 13.3 cm
- Place Discussed
- Asia India Uttar Pradesh
- Provider
- California Digital Library
- Published in
- India
- Reference
- impa-yds-rg030-449-0001-0002.tif
- Rights
- Divinity.Library@yale.edu Yale University Divinity School Library, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511 Yale University. Divinity School. Day Missions Library http://web.library.yale.edu/divinity/copyright-and-permissions
- Source
- Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/6fee582e76404ce36b51d6a325cec673
