The tattooed [scarified] arm of a man of the North Andaman group of tribes, showing a combination of circles and zigzags. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Close-up of upper arm.
Andamanese painted, one with grey mud, (óg), which at a distance gives him the appearance of being clothed; and one painted in pattern with white earth (Tala-og). Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length portrait of two naked Andamanese men showing body painting.
A group of [Andamanese] women painted with óg. The three markings across the breats are very common. There are no superstitions attached to this painting, which is done for pleasure, coolness, ornament, and to keep off vermin. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length portrait of five women with bodies painted in varioius designs. Most figures slightly blurred through movement.
[Making the pig arrow, Andaman Islands.] The thick band which connects the head of the pig arrow 'Éla' is made as shown. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
[Making the pig arrow, Andaman Islands.] To ornament arrows and other articles the Andamanese bind a thin twine over with strips of the bark of an orchid, 'Dendrobium secundum' which has been roasted till it turns of a straw colour. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
[Making the pig arrow, Andaman Islands.] The last operation in the making of a pig arrow is, the coating of it with a thick prepared red wax, 'Kagnata-Buj'. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Showing seated worker applying the wax to the arrow head. Caption continues: 'This is put on hot, smoothed and worked with a hot Cyrena shell, as shown, and then heated again that in the final cooling it may retain a polish.'
[Anthropometric photographs of Andaman Islanders.] Man of the Puchik-Wár tribe. Éremtága. Age about 27 years. No. 1 of the male series of measurements. The actual length of the sides of the squares in the background of these photographs is two inches. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length study, posed naked in front of a checked screen of two inch squares (to indicate scale). The left hand is extended horizontally and rests on a stand.
[Anthropometric photographs of Andaman Islanders.] Biala. Man of the Puchik-Wár tribe. Ariauto. Age about 28 years. No. 9 of the male series of measurements. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length study, posed naked in front of a checked screen of two inch squares (to indicate scale). The left hand is extended horizontally and rests on a stand.