Calcutta, West Bengal: a man about to scatter material from a bowl on a dead body lying on a funeral pyre, watched by women. Photograph.

Date:
[between 1800 and 1899?]
Reference:
664499i
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[Calcutta] : [publisher not identified], [between 1800 and 1899?]

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1 photograph : photoprint, albumen ; sheet 21.3 x 28.7 cm

Lettering

Burning ghat. Calcutta. Lettering inscribed on mount, bears number "2723"

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Wellcome Collection 664499i

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