“Boy dressed up to represent Krishna, Arkonam [Arakkonam].” A young boy wears elaborate jewellery, in the form of necklaces, headdress, bracelets and nose piercings, to represent the deity Krishna. He holds a traditional bamboo flute in front of his mouth as if about to play. ❧ This photograph belongs to an album of mixed photographs collected by Dr. Stevenson and includes images from India, China and Africa.
- Collection
- International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-78583
- Date published
- circa 1920
- Dates
- circa 1920
- Pages
- Photographic prints, 7 x 10.2 cm.
- Place Discussed
- Arakkonam Asia India Tamil Nadu
- Provider
- California Digital Library
- Published in
- India
- Reference
- impa-a-nls-75638630-1.tif
- Rights
- For commercial reproduction please contact the National Library of Scotland by referring to http://www.nls.uk/copyright . For access to the originals please e-mail manuscripts@nls.uk National Library of Scotland National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW, Scotland, UK The National Library of Scotland license the use of this content under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 UK: Scotland License. manuscripts@nls.uk
- Source
- Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/5b97b3fb820b446678284c7cdf7105bc
