Wiele & Klein

Temple cars, funeral rites and processions in southern India feature in these prints after Wiele and Klein, a photographic s...

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Temple cars, funeral rites and processions in southern India feature in these prints after Wiele and Klein, a photographic studio with branches in Madras, Bangalore and Ootacamund in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Their photographs were reproduced in Walter Hutchinson's Customs of the World, introduced by A.C. Haddon. Ceremonial scenes include a procession at Kumbakonam, the temple car at Mylapore, Hindu cremation rites and a Toda funeral, while other plates show Delhi's Jama Masjid, a mother teaching a child to walk, Malabar dress and ritual performers. One plate photographs conventional paintings of Hindu deities.

Temple cars, funeral rites and processions in southern India feature in these prints after Wiele and Klein, a photographic studio with branches in Madras, Bangalore and Ootacamund in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Their photographs were reproduced in Walter Hutchinson's Customs of the World, introduced by A.C. Haddon. Ceremonial scenes include a procession at Kumbakonam, the temple car at Mylapore, Hindu cremation rites and a Toda funeral, while other plates show Delhi's Jama Masjid, a mother teaching a child to walk, Malabar dress and ritual performers. One plate photographs conventional paintings of Hindu deities.

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