Native bards from the Cutch State

Mortimer Menpes

1903

Watercolor

Source: The Durbar, facing p. 80

“Native bards from the Cutch State whose chief feature is a curious kind of bugle which at intervals gives out a curious kind of gurgling sound, much like a turkey in pain.”

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Other depictions of people and animals from Cutch

• A Retainer of the Maharaja of Cutch
• A Famous Led Horse in the Retinue of the Rao of Cutch
• Emblem-Bearers of Cutch

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Bibliography

Menpes, Mortimer. The Durbar. Text by Dorothy Menpes. London: Adam & Charles Black, 1903. Internet Archive version of a copy in the University of California at Los Angeles Library. Web. 27 May 2017.

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