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Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/5(15)
Title:: [Hut building in the Great Andaman Islands. Construction of a 'chang-da' or hut of the second class.] The leaf as gathered is however of no use, so it is split in two down the middle... Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Caption continues: '...by a shell knife, and three or four of the halves are doubled together and tied at intervals by their fronds.' Similarly posed to print 14.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1890-1893
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/5(16)
Title:: [Hut building in the Great Andaman Islands. Construction of a 'chang-da' or hut of the second class.] Making the thatch. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Line of Andaman Islanders at work. Caption continues: 'Several strips of stout cane about sixteen feet long are taken, and laid on the ground, parallel, and about a foot or eighteen inches apart. The men sit together and work in a line. The tied bundles of leav...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1890-1893
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/5(17)
Title:: [Hut building in the Great Andaman Islands. Construction of a 'chang-da' or hut of the second class. Making the thatch.] View of the backs of the workers. The finished thatch can be seen. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1890-1893
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/5(18)
Title:: [Hut building in the Great Andaman Islands. Construction of a 'chang-da' or hut of the second class. Making the thatch.] Outer side of the thatch when finished. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Caption continues: 'Such a piece would be sufficient for the roof of an ordinary hut, but for one of the large circular huts several such pieces would be made, and fastened independently on to the frame work.'
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1890-1893
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/5(19)
Title:: [Hut building in the Great Andaman Islands. Construction of a 'chang-da' or hut of the second class. Making the thatch.] View of the inner side of a piece of thatch. Tassels of cane fibre can be seen tied at intervals to the cane ribs...only for ornament Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1890-1893
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/5(20)
Title:: [Hut building in the Great Andaman Islands. Construction of a 'chang-da' or hut of the second class. The completed hut.] Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Part of print obscured by pasted down caption. Showing a man and a woman seated in the completed hut. The letterpress gives a detailed description of contents, decoration, etc.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1890-1893
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/5(21)
Title:: [Hut making in the Great Andaman Islands. Construction of a temporary hut]. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Andamanese Islanders sorting palm leaves on the beach. Caption reads: 'In the smaller huts which are only required temporarily, (and it must be remembered that the Andamanese mode of life is so uncleanly as to make a frequent 'move on' an absolute necessity), a...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1890-1893
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/5(22)
Title:: [Hut making in the Great Andaman Islands. Construction of a temporary hut]. Uprights and cross-pieces are then put up as shown, the front of the hut being five feet high, and the back three feet high. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1890-1893
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/5(23)
Title:: [Hut making in the Great Andaman Islands. Construction of a temporary hut]. Rafters are then tied, from the front to the back of the hut. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Andaman Islanders posed beside structure of hut, with rafters in place.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1890-1893
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/5(24)
Title:: [Hut making in the Great Andaman Islands. Construction of a temporary hut]. The bundles of leaves are then tied on to these rafters at intervals of about two inches. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography View of completed hut. Caption continues: 'Such a hut as this is quite sufficient in the dry season, or in the breaks in the rains. Notice the tripod for meat in one corner. (See next page).'
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1890-1893
Extent:: 1 item

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