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171. Photo 188/3(27)

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Photo 188/3(27)
Title:
The view shows the 'Chokio' [North Andaman bow] unstrung, the back of the bow being visible. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Three bows propped up against a wall.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890-1893
Extent:
1 item

172. Photo 188/4(9)

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Photo 188/4(9)
Title:
[The South Andaman bow.] The bow string is made from 'Yolba' (Anadendron paniculatum) fibre, a low bush with long scandent shoots. The view shows an Andamanese cutting off with a Cyrena shell, the long shoots from which the fibre is to be scraped. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890-1893
Extent:
1 item

173. Photo 188/4(14)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 188/4(14)
Title:
[The South Andaman bow: making the bow string. Rolling the fibre into twine.] Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Seated Andaman Islander at work. Caption reads in full: 'The fibre is dried in the sun, and when ready for spinning a bundle is taken, and placed between the first and second toes of the left foot of the worker. Two pieces of different lengths are held together...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890-1893
Extent:
1 item

174. Photo 188/4(17)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 188/4(17)
Title:
[The South Andaman bow: making the bow string. Stripping bark from the cinnamon tree.] Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Showing Andaman Islander tearing off a long strip of bark from the 'Chaura' or cinnamon tree. The letterpress describes this shorter method of making bow strings.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890-1893
Extent:
1 item

175. Photo 188/4(24)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 188/4(24)
Title:
Andamanese cutting bamboos. The long ones are used as shafts for the turtle harpoon, the short shoots as arrow shafts. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Andamanese Islander standing amongst a large clump of bamboos.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890-1893
Extent:
1 item

176. Photo 188/5(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 188/5(3)
Title:
Rope making [in the Andaman Islands]. The strongest rope used by the Andamanese, (and it possesses very considerable strength), is made from strips taken of the inside of the bark of the 'Alaba-da' tree (Melochia velutina)...shown in the picture. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography General view of tree on the sea-shore. The letterpress continues with a long description of the uses to which the rope is put and various customs (such as not using it for catching turtle) associated with it.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890-1893
Extent:
1 item

177. Photo 188/5(10)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 188/5(10)
Title:
[Making a turtle harpoon, Andaman Islands]. View of Andaman bamboo jungle from which the shafts of turtle harpoons are cut. They are smoothed with a shell knife, straightened by hand and heat, and stood up to dry, in a manner similar to...the pig arrows. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography General view of bamboo thicket.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890-1893
Extent:
1 item

178. Photo 188/5(11)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 188/5(11)
Title:
Hut building in the Great Andaman Islands. [Construction of a 'chang-da' or hut of the second class.] Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Showing four Andamanese posed beside the four upright members of the hut whose construction is illustrated in prints 11-20. The series is accompanied by a long descriptive letterpress in which Portman distinguishes three principal types of dwelling erected by t...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890-1893
Extent:
1 item

179. Photo 188/5(14)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 188/5(14)
Title:
[Hut building in the Great Andaman Islands. Construction of a 'chang-da' or hut of the second class.] The leaves for thatching are in the meanwhile collected, generally by women. Cane leaf is mostly used, the view showing a single leaf. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Andaman Islander posed holding a palm frond.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890-1893
Extent:
1 item

180. Photo 188/5(16)

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

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