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431. Photo 188/2(22)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 188/2(22)
Title:
[Bow making, Andaman Islands. Cutting the branch.] Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Caption reads: 'The most remarkable feature of this bow, in which it differs from the 'Járawa' bows in the Andamans, and, I believe, any other bow elsewhere in the world, is its shape; the lower half of the bow being straight, and the upper half curved. It is t...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890-1893
Extent:
1 item

432. Photo 188/2(23)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 188/2(23)
Title:
[Bow making, Andaman Islands. Shaping the bow.] Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Caption reads in full: 'The log is then stood up on end against a tree or rock, and the face of it is roughly shaped with the adze, commencing about three quarters up the bow. The whole face having been shaped, (the bow being turned upside down, for convenience...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890-1893
Extent:
1 item

433. Photo 188/2(24)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 188/2(24)
Title:
[Bow making, Andaman Islands. Shaping the bow.] Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Caption reads in full: 'The back is similarly cut, and the rough work is then trimmed carefully by fine cuts with the adze, commencing on the left side, until the bow appears in its proper form. The centre is then carefully cut, and the peculiar shape of this p...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890-1893
Extent:
1 item

434. 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

435. Photo 188/2(26)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 188/2(26)
Title:
[Bow making, Andaman Islands. Stringing the bow.] Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Andaman Islander posed in thre act of stringing the bow, which is held steady between the toes of one foot while being bent from the top. Note the use of a photographer's stand to steady the posed figure. The whole procedure is described in the long letterpress...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890-1893
Extent:
1 item

436. Photo 188/3

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 188/3
Title:
Portman Collection: Andamanese Islanders, Vol. III. Photographer(s): Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:
Maroon half-leather bound volume measuring 405 x 34 6mm containing 27 platinum prints mounted one to a page with letterpress captions of varying lengths pasted beneath each image. The thick card pages of the album are somewhat bowed.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890-1893
Extent:
27 items

437. Photo 188/3(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 188/3(1)
Title:
Pig arrows 'Éla-Da' [Andaman Islands]. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Photograph of four arrow heads of various types, two with the heads detached from the shafts. Letterpress caption gives further details on use.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890-1893
Extent:
1 item

438. Photo 188/3(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 188/3(2)
Title:
[Manufacture of arrow connector, Andaman Islands.] Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Photograph demonstrating the way in which the arrow connector, the length of cord and cane which attaches the arrow to the shaft, is manufactured.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890-1893
Extent:
1 item

439. Photo 188/3(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 188/3(3)
Title:
[Method of sharpening arrows, Andaman Islands.] Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Showing an Andamanese Islander cleaning and wetting the flat oval whetstone by licking it. The letterpress describes the various forms of arrows used by the Andamanese.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890-1893
Extent:
1 item

440. Photo 188/3(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 188/3(4)
Title:
[Method of sharpening arrows, Andaman Islands.] Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Caption in full reads: 'Photograph showing the manner in which the pig arrow is sharpened. The blade is held flat against the ball of the left foot, while it is sharpened with the edge of the whetstone worked from the body. As shown in the preceding photograph,...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890-1893
Extent:
1 item