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Container Reference (shelfmark) Photo 188/2

21. Photo 188/2(21)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 188/2(21)
Title:
[Bow making, Andaman Islands.] The South Andaman bow. Karam-da. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Showing a growing tree selected for making the bow. The long descriptive caption records that the bow and arrows is the principal weapon of the Andamanese, and that various kinds of wood are used in its manufacture, 'the important point being that the branch se...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890-1893
Extent:
1 item

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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

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