Genre: Ethnographical Photography Head and shoulders portrait of a Toda man, his right arm held across his breast. Plate v of James Wilkinson Breeks, 'An account of the primitive tribes and monuments of the Nilagiris' (India Museum, London, 1873).
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Head and shoulders portrait of a Toda woman, her right arm held across his breast. Plate v(a) of James Wilkinson Breeks, 'An account of the primitive tribes and monuments of the Nilagiris' (India Museum, London, 1873).
Toda man's head, Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Head and shoulders profile, with a measuring rule placed to indicate scale. Plate vi of James Wilkinson Breeks, 'An account of the primitive tribes and monuments of the Nilagiris' (India Museum, London, 1873).
Toda man's head, Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Head and shoulders profile, with a measuring rule placed to indicate scale. Plate vii of James Wilkinson Breeks, 'An account of the primitive tribes and monuments of the Nilagiris' (India Museum, London, 1873).
Tarnat Mund, a Toda village, Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography General view of a row of Toda houses. The location of T(h)arnat Mund can be found on the map at plate ii. Plate viii of James Wilkinson Breeks, 'An account of the primitive tribes and monuments of the Nilagiris' (India Museum, London, 1873).
Toda house, Paikara Tiriari, Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Close view of a characteristic Toda house. Plate ix of James Wilkinson Breeks, 'An account of the primitive tribes and monuments of the Nilagiris' (India Museum, London, 1873).
Todas at play, Nilgir Hills. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Posed group, with man crawling through low cairn of stones and another man in pursuit. The game is called narthpimi (see p.10). With two women seated in the background. Plate x of James Wilkinson Breeks, 'An account of the primitive tribes and monuments of the...
Todas with clubs, etc., Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of four Toda men, carrying spears and clubs. One figure appears to be playing a flute-like instrument, while the crouching figure on the left holds a stringed instrument. Plate xi of James Wilkinson Breeks, 'An account of the primitive tribes and monument...
Mukkurti Tiriari and Palals, Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography General view of mund on hillside: 'There are five kinds of [Toda] priests, who rank as follows:- I. Palals...who, according to the regular sequence of Toda ideas, are a mixture of ascetic and herdman. They live at isolated mands called Tiriaris.' The mund seen ...
Boa (Toda temple) at Muttinand Mund, Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Conical roofed structure. Plate xiii of James Wilkinson Breeks, 'An account of the primitive tribes and monuments of the Nilagiris' (India Museum, London, 1873).