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Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/3(20)
Title:: [Bow making, Andaman Islands.] The bow is then scraped smooth with the Cyrena shell, as shown. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Fourteenth stage in the manufacture of the bow.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1890-1893
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/3(21)
Title:: [Bow making, Andaman Islands.] It is planed with the pig's tusk 'pilichada', until it is perfectly smooth, but is seldom waxed. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Caption continues: 'These bows attain a high polish, and are kept quite plain, having no ornamental carving on them. Twine is then bound round the bow about five inches from the upper end which tapers to a long fine point, and about one inch from the lower end ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1890-1893
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/3(22)
Title:: [Bow making, Andaman Islands. Stringing the bow.] Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography A dark print. Caption reads in part: 'The 'Chokio' differs, I beleive, from every other bow in the world in the peculiarity of its stringing. When once a new bow string is put on, it is not taken off again until it is either too slack for work, or breaks. It is...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1890-1893
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/3(23)
Title:: [Bow making, Andaman Islands. Stringing the bow.] Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Caption reads in full: 'The bow is now considered to be unstrung, and in order to string it, the attitude in the picture is assumed, and with the right hand the string is pulled on to the inside of the bow thus reversing the curve of it.'
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1890-1893
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/3(24)
Title:: [Bow making, Andaman Islands.] This picture shows how the bow is held when used. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Bow and arms of firer blurred through movement during the exposure.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1890-1893
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/3(25)
Title:: [Bow making, Andaman Islands. Unstringing the bow.] Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Caption reads in full: 'To unstring the bow, the process of stringing is reversed and the string is now pulled over to the back of the bow, the tension of the curve on this side being less than that on the other, owing to the peculiar straightness of the lower ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1890-1893
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/3(26)
Title:: This photograph shows the 'Chokio' [North Andaman bows] when strung. The peculiar S curve similar to that of the South Andaman bow should be noticed. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Caption continues: 'Also, the upper end of the bow can always be detected, because that end is always of a longer and more tapering form than the lower end.'
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1890-1893
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/3(27)
Title:: The view shows the 'Chokio' [North Andaman bow] unstrung, the back of the bow being visible. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Three bows propped up against a wall.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1890-1893
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/4
Title:: Portman Collection: Andamanese Islanders, Vol. IV. Photographer(s): Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Maroon half-leather bound volume measuring 405 x 340 mm, containing 35 platinum prints mounted one to a page with letterpress captions of varying lengths pasted beneath each image. The thick card pages of the album are somewhat bowed.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1890-1893
Extent:: 35 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/4(1)
Title:: [Shooting with the South Andaman bow. Karam-da.] The bow is then reversed for use, and this view shows a man in the act of shooting with it. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography This photograph and the following prints are a continuation from Photo 188/2 (21-25), which illustrates the making of the South Andaman bow.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1890-1893
Extent:: 1 item

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