NON-EXPORTABLE
A PRECIOUS RECORD OF A TRIBAL WORLD NOW ALL BUT VANISHED
As per one of the copies sold in a previous auction it had a paper label stating Only 100 copies printed.
TITLE: Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal
AUTHOR:Edward Tuite Dalton
PUBLISHER: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing
PLACE: Calcutta
YEAR: 1872
BINDING: Bound in full calf
NO.OF PAGES: vi + 327 pages. Illustrated by Lithograph Portraits copied from Photographs by ToscoPeppe and W. Simpson. These lithographs are further hand coloured. Single frontispiece and 39 hand coloured lithographed portraits.
SIZE:
Height: 35 cm
Width: 27 cm
Depth: 5.5 cm
The term Bengal in Dalton s time referred to what are now the Indian states of Bihar, Orissa, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Tripura, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Megalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, and Nagaland, and the present-day country of Bangladesh. The book is a geographically precise description of the landsand people treated in this classic ethnography. Each tribe described by Dalton is portrayed in stunning lithographs that convey a sense of immediacy free of the staging common to Victorian ethnographic photography.
LIST OF PLATES IN ORDER: .br.
Rest at noon (frontispiece)
Khamti (plate I)
Fig 1. Khamti Female (plate II)
Fig 2 Chulikata Woman (see accents on the plate) (plate II)
Fig 1 A capital specimen of a Singpho Chief (plate III)
Fig 2 Abelo, Chulikata Mishmi Chief (plate III)
Male and Female of the Tain or Digaru Mishmi Tribe (plate IV)
Group of Digaru Mishmis (plate V)
Group of Miju Mishmis (plate VI)
Group of Midhi or Chulikata Mishmis (plate VII)
Fig 1 An admirable and thoroughly typical representation of a Tain Mishmi girl (plate VIII)
Fig 2 A Bor Abor girl. (plate VIII)
A Miju or Mizhu Mishmi in undress (plate VIIIa)
A Chulikata Mishmi Chief in full dress (plate IX)
Group of Bor Abors (plate X)
Abor Chief (plate XI)
Dhoba Abor (plate XII)
A Dhoba Abor (plate XIII)
Fig 1 A Phakial (plate XIV)
Fig 2 Miri Woman (plate XIV)
Miuis Male and Female (plate XV)
Naga Chief (plate XVI)
Male and Female of the Namsang Naga Tribe (plate XVII)
Maleand Female from Murruck, Asam (plate XVIIa)
Male and Female of the Lower Naga Group (plate XVIII)
Figs 1, 2 and 3 are natives of Mauipur Valley (plate XIX)
Fig 4 Angami Naga (plate XIX)
Kachari Male and Female (plate XX)
Kukis Male and Female (plate XXI)
Garo Women and head of Garo Boy (plate XXII)
Bhutias or Burs, Male and Female (plate XXIII)
Lepchas (Sikkim) (plate XXIV)
Limbu Male and Female (plate XXV)
Fig 1. A Mug (plate XXVI)
Fig 2. A "Ho" or Kol of Singhbum (plate XXVI)
Mundas of Chutia Nagpur, Male and Female (plate XXVII)
Oraons and Mundas of Chutia Nagpur (plate XXVIII)
Santals (plate XXIX)
Group of Korwas (plate XXX)
Fig 1. An Oraon Chutia Nagpur (plate XXXI)
Fig 2 RomiaN Oraon girl of Chutin Nagpur (plate XXXI)
Koccu Male and Female (plate XXXII)
Juang Girls (plate XXXIII)
Juang Tribe (plate XXXIV)
Bendkar Tribe (plate XXXV)
Ho or Larka Kol Females (plate XXXVI)
Paori (or Pahari) Bhuiyas of Keonjhar Male and Female (plate XXXVII)
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