A Bauluk. - A man in a turban holding a stick

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A Bauluk. - A man in a turban holding a stick

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Colored etching of barefoot Bengali dancing boy with painted face dressed as Krishna. Inscription below figure reads "a Bauluk". Boy’s costume includes bird headdress, blue cape, necklace, and exotic ear decorations. He holds a wand. Representative image of a dancer at feast of Jhulan Yatra. From Solvyns’s Collection of two hundred and fifty coloured etchings, sec. 3, pl. 5.

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1600 - 1800
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National Library of Medicine
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