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121. Photo 188/5(8)

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Photo 188/5(8)
Title:
[Rope making in the Andaman Islands.] View showing how the ball of cord is passed round. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890-1893
Extent:
1 item

122. Photo 188/5(9)

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Photo 188/5(9)
Title:
Making a turtle harpoon [Andaman Islands]. A circular piece of rod iron a quarter of an inch in diameter and nine inches long is worked to a sharp point at one end, and twine is wound, with wax, round the other end until a knob is formed. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890-1893
Extent:
1 item

123. Photo 188/5(10)

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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

124. 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

125. Photo 188/5(12)

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Photo 188/5(12)
Title:
[Hut building in the Great Andaman Islands. Construction of a 'chang-da' or hut of the second class.] The front stakes are then connected by a stout cross-piece securely tied on with cane. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890-1893
Extent:
1 item

126. Photo 188/5(13)

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Photo 188/5(13)
Title:
[Hut building in the Great Andaman Islands. Construction of a 'chang-da' or hut of the second class.] The front and back of the hut are then connected by two stout sticks, parallel, projecting a foot in front of the hut and about 18 inches behind. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Showing main structural members of the hut in position. The photograph is a double exposure, with ghost images of Andamanese in position fixing these members in place.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890-1893
Extent:
1 item

127. 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

128. Photo 188/5(15)

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

129. 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

130. Photo 188/5(17)

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

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