*"Women grinding corn," a chromolithograph by William Simpson, 1867* (BL)


*Two women grinding grain, a photograph by Hooper and Western, c.1871* (BL)


Women grinding corn; an albumen photo from c.1870

Source: ebay, Aug. 2007





"A mill of the upper country," from the Illustrated London News, 1870

Source: ebay, Feb. 2012

*"Women grinding grain," an engraving from the Illustrated London News, 1874*

Source: ebay, Feb. 2007


*Two women grinding, a watercolor by Bani Lal, c.1880* (BL) [*Bani Lal 1880*]


*A woman grinding grain, an albumen photo, c.1880's*

Source: ebay, July 2007


"Bheel women grinding corn," an albumen print, c.1880's

Source: ebay, Nov. 2007


"Village women grinding corn," an albumen photograph from c. the 1880's; *another view*

Source: ebay, Oct. 2005


*Pounding rice [in Kashmir]; a photo from the 1890's* (BL)


*Women grinding, apparently in Kashmir; a photo c.1900*

Source: ebay, Sept. 2007



*A posed studio photo, c.1900*

Source: ebay, Aug. 2008


*"Shelling rice and gossiping with the neighbors--home life of contented citizens of Cashmere," 1908* (Ames Library);
also: *"Primitive native life of India-- Hindu women grinding at the mills," 1902*, and *a Russian version*;
also: *"Hindu housewives grinding flour, India," 1908*





Young girls demonstrate how it's done, perhaps in or near Simla, c.1915

Source: ebay, Mar. 2009


*Toda women in the Nilgiri Hills, one of them grinding grain, c.1940s*

Source: ebay, June 2007





In the Terai; a news bureau photo, 1951

Source: ebay, Dec. 2008


*A Desia Kondh tribal woman, Orissa, 1996; photo by Tara Colburn*

Source: http://ames.lib.umn.edu/pastexa13.html
(downloaded June 2000)


A modern brass piece from Orissa, in the tribal Bastar style

Source: ebay, Dec. 2007





A small wooden spice-grinder (1900's)

Source: ebay, Mar. 2013

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