[A Coolie Shopkeepers Miss. Trinidad]

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2008-12-05T17:09:18Z

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Photograph of an East Indian woman who perhaps works in a shop. She is wearing a bodice with with a sari. She is draped in a jhumartikka - an ornament worn by women, hanging from the parting line of the hair over the forehead. She also wears two gold nose rings (nath), necklaces, bangles made from gold on both wrists, joshan which are armulets tied above the elbow with a lace whose tassels are weighted with a small gold or silver ball, bead necklaces and gold rings.

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Colour: Black and White; Style: Portrait; Other: Bordered, Undivided
Funding for this project has been provided by Mrs. Irma E. Goldstraw.

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Postcards, Women, East Indian--Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago, Jewelry--India, Nose rings--India

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