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This photonegative shows a bare-bodied Indian man clad in a white sarong carrying baskets on his head and a changkol on his left shoulder. Beside him is a bare-bodied boy also clad in an ankle length sarong which is rolled at the waist. Title devised by Library staff. Date of creation estimated.
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