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Container Reference (shelfmark) Photo 188/7

31. Photo 188/7(31)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 188/7(31)
Title:
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
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length portrait of five women with bodies painted in varioius designs. Most figures slightly blurred through movement.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

32. Photo 188/7(32)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 188/7(32)
Title:
[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
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890-1893
Extent:
1 item

33. Photo 188/7(33)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 188/7(33)
Title:
[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
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890-1893
Extent:
1 item

34. Photo 188/7(34)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 188/7(34)
Title:
[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
Scope & Content:
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.'
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890-1893
Extent:
1 item

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