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: 72-year old papermaker, Sulah Manji, supporting chapri against stick, Gosunda, Rajasthan, India, 1989

: Adding pulp to floating mould, Sanganer, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, 1994

: Afghani marbling, unknown location, unknown date

: Agate and wood burnishing tools, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, 1990

: Agate burnishing tools, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, 1990

: Agate polishing stone, Kota, Rajasthan, India, 1989

: Air drying sheets, Erandol, Maharashtra, India, 1985

: AIVIA (All India Village Industries Association) deckle box, Wardha, Maharashtra, India, 1985

: AIVIA member holding grass mould, Wardha, Maharashtra, India, 1985

: Alexandra Soteriou in front of Sher Mandal, New Delhi, India, 1990

: Alexandra Soteriou in Hathras searching for Kagzi families, Hathras, Uttar Pradesh, India, 1985

: Alexandra Soteriou learning about mountain fibers for papermaking, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India, 1990

: Alexandra Soteriou with camera and children in village, Goa, India, 1985

: Alexandra Soteriou with Gandhian papermaker S. B. Khodke at All India Village Industries Association gate, Wardha, Maharashtra, India, 1985

: Antique paper kites, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, 1990

: Antique paper kites, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, 1990

: Antique paper sheet with impressions from being dried on woven mat, New Delhi, India, 1990

: Antique paper sheet with impressions from being dried on woven mat, New Delhi, India, 1997

: Astrological scroll, New York, 1990

: Baby sleeping with paper, Sanganer, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, 1985

: Back of painted astrological scrolls reveals fibrous paper, New Delhi, India, 1990

: Back of painted astrological scrolls reveals fibrous paper, New Delhi, India, 1990

: Birch bark paper for sale in a general store, Gilgit, Hunza, Pakistan, 1990

: Birch bark paper for sale in general store, Gilgit, Hunza, Pakistan, 1990

: Birch bark paper rolls for sale at a tea shop on Karakoram Highway, Gilgit, Hunza, Pakistan, 1990

: Birch bark paper rolls for sale outside tea shop, Karakoram Highway, Gilgit, Hunza, Pakistan, 1990

: Bird and drying sheets on ground, Kalpi, Haryana, India, 1990

: Bowls of drained washed pulp, Sanganer, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, 1985

: Brush patterns on paper, Sanganer, India, 1989

: Calligraphy on highly-polished translucent paper, Tonk, Rajasthan, India, 1991

: Carrying a load of jute fibers, Sāṅgānera, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, 1991

: Carrying paper sheets, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, India, 1989

: Carrying washed pulp in bowl on head, Sanganer, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, 1989

: Chapri on loom with terra cotta weights, Sanganer, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, 1989

: Chapri with terra cotta weights on weaving frame, Sanganer, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, 1989

: Chapri wood frame, kansi, Sanganer, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, 1989

: Chenab River and Aik Nala Waterways, Sialkot, Pakistan, 1990

: Child alongside paper post, Khuldabad, Maharashtra, India, 1989

: Child holding handmade paper speaker cone, Sanganer, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, 1989

: Child standing in front of stone weights press paper post, Sanganer, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, 1990

: Child with vessel on head outside ruins of paper-drying wall, Khuldabad, Maharashtra, India, 1989

: Children near handmade paper stacks, Sanganer, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, 1990

: Children of Kagzi families use paddle-board book for study, Sawai Madhopur, Rajasthan, India, 1985

: Close-up grass mould, chapri, Sanganer, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, 1989

: Close-up grass mould, chapri, Sanganer, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, 1989

: Close-up of Siaden Hussain Kagzi removing fresh sheet from a post on the wall prior to brushing it on the wall to dry, Sanganer, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, 1989

: Close-up removing fresh sheet from a post on the wall prior to brushing it on the wall to dry, Sanganer, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, 1989

: Cloth interleaving atop jute sheet, Sanganer, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, 1994

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Title: Soteriou Papermaking Images Archive
Creator: Soteriou, Alexandra
Date Created: 1985/1998
Description: Papermaking in India, Nepal, and Pakistan. The Kagzi are a Muslim community found in the states of Gujarat and Maharashtra in India. The term Kagzi in Urdu means a manufacturer of paper, from the word kagaz or paper. There are, in fact, two distinct Kagzi communities, with their own customs, traditions and origin myths, one found in Gujarat and the other in Maharashtra.
Language: English
Subjects: Library of Congress Subject Headings: Papermaking
Subjects (Local): Topics: History
Archaeology
Preparation
Subject: Time: 1980-1990
1990-2000
Subject: Place: India
Nepal
Pakistan
Archival Collection: Soteriou Papermaking Images Archive
Alexandra Soteriou World Paper Company Collection
Collection Identifier: MSC1076
Collection Guide: http://aspace.lib.uiowa.edu/repositories/2/resources/2782
Host institution: University of Iowa. Libraries. Special Collections
Digitization Specifications: Scanned with Nikon LS4000 slide scanner at 2800 ppi, 24-bit RGB color.
Date Digital: 2015
Rights Management: © Alexandra Soteriou
Contact Information: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/sc/contact/
Item Type (DCMI): Collection
Item Type (AAT): slides (photographs)
Item Type (IMT): tiff
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