Malabar Collection

India / Bombay / Malabar
Bombay: Malabar Hill Date: circa 1900

Weeping fig, Ficus benjamina
Weeping fig, benjamin fig, Ficus benjamina. Native to Malabar, India, and the East Indies. Shining-leaved fig, Ficus nitida

Bombay, Mumbai, India, view from Malabar Hill
Vintage 19th century photograph: Bombay, Mumbai, India, view from Malabar Hill

View from Malabar Hill, Bombay, Mumbai, India
Vintage 19th century photograph: View from Malabar Hill, Bombay, Mumbai, India/

Pink swamp heath, Sprengelia incarnata, Sprengelia carnicina

Malabar thryssa, Blochs gizzard shad
Malabar thryssa, Thryssa malabarica 146, Blochs gizzard shad, Nematalosa nasus 147, French fishermen fishing for sardines and anchovies using lamps and special nets called rissoles

Malabar giant squirrel, Ratufa indica
Indian or Malabar giant squirrel, Ratufa indica, and European hamster, Cricetus cricetus

Malabar pied hornbill, Anthracoceros coronatus (Pied hornbill, Buceros malabaricus)

Greater racket-tailed drongo, Dicrurus paradiseus (Malabar shrike, Lanius malabaricus)

Bastard teak, Pterocarpus marsupium. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887

Leafy liverworts and Malabar nut
Leafy liverworts, Jungermannia epiphylla 1 and Jungermannia asplenoides 2, and Malabar nut or adulsa, Justicia adhatoda 3. Jungermannes, Justicia

Malabar chestnut or money tree, Pachira aquatica (Pachira macrocarpa)

Malabar catmint, Anisomeles malabarica. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Samuel Curtis Botanical Magazine, London, 1819

Malabar cardamom, Elettaria cardamomum
Malabar cardamom or ailum, Elettaria cardamomum. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

Malabar ebony, Diospyros malabarica
Malabar ebony, tindooka, gab or gaub tree, Diospyros malabarica (Diospyros embryopteris)

Malabar kino, Indian kino tree or vijayasar, Pterocarpus marsupium. Vulnerable. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr

View from Back Bay Malabar Hill - a hillock and upmarket residential neighbourhood in South Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Date: circa 1908

Men of the Hill Tribes of Malabar, southern India
Hill tribe men and boys from the Malabar region of southern India (lying between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea). Date: circa 1910s

View from Malabar Hill, Bombay (Mumbai), India. Date: circa 1890s

Harpactes fasciatus, Malabar trogon
Plate 30, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Parsee Tower of Silence, Malabar Hill, Bombay, India
Parsee Tower of Silence, Malabar Hill, Bombay (Mumbai), India. Date: circa 1905

Soho, London - shop window display, with some rather dusty bottles and some tins of coffee. 1973

Various outfits from the 1960s
An article entitled What People are Wearing showing an assortment of 1960s fashions, including a cotton jersey dress by Biba; purple

Great squirrel, Malabar squirrel, Indian giant squirrel, Ratufa indica

Malabar hoary callicarpa, Callicarpa cana.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn by John Curtis and engraved by Weddell from Curtiss Botanical Magazine 1819, Samuel Curtis, Walworth, London

History of the Missions, 1863. Wedding in India, 19th c
HENRION, Mathieu-Richard-Auguste, Baron of (1805 - 1862). General history of the missions from the thirteenth century to the present day. 1863

India Malabar Coast
Fishing boats and other vessels off the Malabar Coast. Date: circa 1840

Pounding rice - Malabar region of Southern India
Sifting, sorting and pounding rice with a large pestle and mortar - Malabar region of southern India (lying between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea). Date: circa 1910s

Ploughing with Buffalo - Malabar region of southern India (lying between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea). Date: circa 1910s

Nymphaea lotus, water lily of Malabar
Watercolour by T. Reichel, 1789. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Myophonus horsfieldii, Malabar whistling thrush
Plate 13, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)

Psittacula columboides, Malabar parakeet
Plate 23, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)

Curcuma augustifolia, malabar arrowroot
Illustration by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928). Held at the Natural History Museum, London

Paris Exhibition - Great Indian Exhibition (3 / 3)
People from the Malabar region of southern India (lying between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea) at the Grande Exposition Indienne held in Paris in 1902

Paris Exhibition - Great Indian Exhibition (1 / 3)
People from the Malabar region of southern India (lying between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea) at the Grande Exposition Indienne held in Paris in 1902

Paris Exhibition - Great Indian Exhibition (2 / 3)
People from the Malabar region of southern India (lying between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea) at the Grande Exposition Indienne held in Paris in 1902

Jardin D Acclimatation - Bois de Boulogne in Paris
The French set up the Jardin D Acclimatation in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris and brought in examples of native material culture and traditional costume

The Wynaad Goldfield, Southern India. Views of the Richmond
Scenic engraving of the Coffee Estate in the Malabar district of Madras, where gold was found and mined between 1876-1886

The Wynaad Goldfields, Southern India. The Verandah
Engraving of verandah on grand Indian estate where gold has been found. Three servants in turbans are waiting on their master, one servant is leading a horse to the master

The Wynaad Goldfields of Southern India. Richmond Coffee Sto
Engraving of servants sweeping and carrying coffee to the store on the Richmond Estate, where gold was found

Cannanore, India
(or Kananur) Seaport on Malabar coast, SW India, visited by Vasco da Gama 1498, Portuguese fort built here in 1505

Boatmen on the Malabar Coast, India, 1877
Engraving of several native oared vessels, one named the Calicut, as used on the Malabar Coast of India, circa 1877. In the background can be seen two, double masted, lanteen sailing dhows

Suttee, India
A widow of Malabar, southern India, prepares to throw herself onto her husbands funeral pyre

Bewick Squirrel Longtail
About three times the size of European squirrels, this rodent is found in Ceylon and Malabar

Wedding ceremony at Malabar, India
A wedding ceremony at Malabar, in south western India

Wedding procession at Malabar, India
A wedding procession at Malabar, in south-western India

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