Group of Tamil girls - Public domain print

Studio portrait of three children wearing jewellery, at Madras in Tamil Nadu, taken in c. 1870
The young girl on the left is wearing the half-sari which is the traditional dress of adolescent girls in the South Indian states. The girl in the centre of the photograph is wearing the jewelled head-dress traditionally worn at marriage ceremonies or at 'rites of passage' ceremonies performed when a girl reaches puberty.