[Body painting in the Andaman Islands.] Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Man and woman seated on the ground, the woman painting the stomach of the man with a zigzag pattern. Accompanying letterpress reads (in part): 'Tála-óg is used for the fine patterns; and this earth, which is rare, is kept in large Pinna shells, mixed with a li...
[Body painting in the Andaman Islands.] Smearing Koiób, a dark red pigment, onto the upper lip of an Andamanese man. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Head and shoulders portrait.
[Body painting in the Andaman Islands.] Head of an Andamanese painted with Tála-óg. And a smear of Koiób on the nose and upper lip. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Curved line of diamond shapes in white along the side of face.
[Body painting in the Andaman Islands. Painting the head of a widower with óg.] Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Showing a man having his forehead painted with white mud by a woman. The caption reads: 'On the death of a wife or near relative, the shaven forehead of an Andamanese man is plastered with a thick cake of white mud, 'óg'. He is then said to be 'áka-óg', and doe...
A widow would have the whole of her head plastered over with a thick coating of Déla over which a wash of óg would be put, as shown, the hair growing underneath it. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Head and shoulders portrait.
[Andamanese man being bled by a woman.] Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Woman making small cuts with a piece of quartz or glass to the forehead of a man to relieve pain or fever. Both figures seated.