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Concept

Cremation

Images

  • 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.
  • Calcutta, West Bengal: young men standing by a funeral pyre on which they have placed the dead body of a man. Photograph.
  • Cremation of a native American lying on a plank of wood above a fire; warning issued by the Californian Rural Indian Health Board to native Americans to practice safe sex. Colour lithograph.
  • Benares (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh: corpses being burned and consigned to the river Ganges. Photograph.
  • Benares (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh: corpses being burned and consigned to the river Ganges. Photograph.
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Catalogue

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    Calcutta, West Bengal: young men standing by a funeral pyre on which they have placed the dead body of a man. Photograph.

    | Date: [between 1900 and 1999?] | Reference: 664507i
    Part of: Hindu cremation in Calcutta
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    Calcutta, West Bengal: the dead body of a man burning on a funeral pyre; a young man standing by. Photograph.

    | Date: [between 1900 and 1999?] | Reference: 664508i
    Part of: Hindu cremation in Calcutta
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    Sanitary disposal of the dead : a lecture / delivered by C.N. Peirce.

    Peirce, C. N. | Date: [1891], ©1891
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    Benares (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh: corpses being burned and bathed. Photograph.

    | Date: [1900?] | Reference: 47692i
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    Cremation and cholera / by Edgar Sheppard.

    Sheppard, Edgar, 1845-1921. | Date: [1884?]
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