Black and white lantern slide showing an Indian man at his work as a boot mender. He sits on a wooden platform, mending a pair of low boots with his tools scattered around him. An older man sits beside him and talks to him, with one foot slipped out of his shoe, whilst another two men look into the camera from the background. Because this man is engaged in leather-work (a low caste occupation in the Hindu system of social organisation), he may be a Muslim or a member of the low "Dalit" caste. This slide comes from a collection created by missionaries from Regions Beyond Missionary Union, an interdenominational Protestant evangelical mission working in northeast India (Bihar and Orissa) and Nepal.
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lantern slides 8.2 x 8.2cm lantern slides photographs
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