Indoor portrait. Broken on the real left bottom corner and biological deterioration on the border. Group portrait. Full length shot. Photo taken in the interior courtyard of a tiled roof house.There are 12 monks. A Jeeyar is a Vaishnavite Sanyasi standing in the middle and wearing a short cloth arround his waist, rosaries and the vaishnavites symbol (namam) on his head and body. He is holding in his right hand a stick with a flag and have a stole on his left upper rest.The others disciples are standing both side and on the back. They are wearing veshti, sacred thread, the vaishanvites symbol (namam) on the forehead and the body. They are bald. The 2 disciples on the left and right side are holding on their hand a hand fan (samarai/visiri). background has curtain.
Group portrait
Item details
Creation date:
20th century
Languages:
Not applicable
Scripts:
Not applicable
Content type:
Photograph
Place of origin:
India
Originals information:
The original material is located at the French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP), India
Reference:
EAP946/21/1/1/6
Level:
Item
Extent:
1 TIFF image
Digitisation date:
2017
Legal:
Access is for research purposes only
This item is part of
- Project EAP946:
- Collection EAP946/21:
- Collection EAP946/21/1:
- File EAP946/21/1/1:
- Item EAP946/21/1/1/6:
