Coolie Women

A rather unusual portrait of "coolie" women. While popular postcard subjects, often shown with their baskets, this studio portrait features one woman with her back to the viewer, and another looking straight into her (invisible) eyes. Perhaps the intention was to show how their saris were worn, but the caption makes no such mention. Or the photographer wanted to offer something different for a change; Clifton had more than its fair share of frontal coolie women postcards.