1. Photo 188/2(25)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 188/2(25)
- Title:
- [Bow making, Andaman Islands. Smoothing the shaped bow with a sharpened pig's tusk.] Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
- Scope & Content:
- Genre: Ethnographical Photography Seated Andaman Islander at work. The long letterpress caption describes the working method, the dog tooth patterns later applied with a Cyrena shell and the occasionally used method of soaking the wood to make it more easily workable: 'Being made of green wood ...
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 1890-1893
- Extent:
- 1 item