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Prints & Engravings
VBI-0274
MIJU MISHMI
₹11,000
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Details
- Artist / Engraver
- Not specified
- Year
- 1872
- Publisher / Printer
- Manhart (lithographic printer)
- Location
- North-East
- Subjects
- Miju Mishmi · Ethnographic portraiture · Dress and personal ornaments
- Size
- 13.5 x 9.8
Description
A fine 19th-century ethnographic portrait titled Miju Mishmi, depicting a Mishmi figure adorned with layered ornaments and holding a pipe. This plate comes from Edward Tuite Dalton’s important work Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal, a landmark illustrated survey of the peoples of eastern and northeastern India.
Condition
Very Good