Genre: Portrait Photography View looking along the terrace in front of the verandah of the bungalow, where the domestic staff are grouped for their photograph. The European figures seated on the verandah are presumably members of the Philips household.
Toda green funeral, Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Toda group, with sacrificed buffaloes (the herd of the deceased) in the foreground. The ceremony is described in detail on pp. 19-23. plate xiv of James Wilkinson Breeks, 'An account of the primitive tribes and monuments of the Nilagiris' (India Museum, London,...