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Figure / servant

Description

Figure of a male Indian household servant wearing a small close-fitting cap, white vest with red stripes, and coarse white waist cloth, standing behind an oven

Museum reference

A.1914.994

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Figure / servant

Associations

India, South Asia

References

C.A. Bayly (ed.), The Raj: India and the British, 1600 - 1947, London, 199, pp. 288-289, no. 365

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