9. The Surround Line. Beaters using Bamboo clapper, Mysore India.
Category
Photographs
Date
1919
Materials
Measurements
136 x 82 mm
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Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 886556.9
Summary
A photograph of a male labourer, a beater, standing in a forest before a pile of wood and holding a bamboo object in his right hand, looking at the camera. Two other figures can be seen in the background. Contained in a grey photograph album containing photographs of the Khedda Operations in the Kakankota Forests of Mysore as witnessed in December 1919 by His Excellency Lord Chelmsford, Viceroy and Governor General of India.
Provenance
A gift from the Hon. Gerald Agar-Robartes, 7th Viscount Clifden, who gave Lanhydrock to the National Trust in 1953 and continued to live there with his two sisters, Everilda and Violet, until his death in 1966. Probably belonged to the Hon. Alexander Agar-Robartes who was Aide-de-camp to Lord Chelmsford, Viceroy of India, in 1919.