Basketmaking, Ramabi Mukti Mission

Print, Photographic

Accession Number: 2009.24.16.650

Description: BW print that has been marked up for publication; two Indian women, wearing saris, sit on ground with rough brick wall behind them, leaning over what appear to be the lids for finished baskets that sit in front of them; the baskets are cylindrical and decorated with flowers; captioned "Making baskets of banana fibre at Blind Women's Training Center, Ramabai Mukti Mission, India."

Medium: Photographic Paper

Date: ca. 1960

History/Provenance: Used in a 1956-57 John Milton Society fundraising brochure "Let Light Shine Through".

Credit Line: AFB Migel Memorial Library Collection, 2009.24

Subjects: Asia Basket making India Vocational Education