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Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/5(6)
Title:: [Rope making in the Andaman Islands.] Three or four of the strips are taken, twisted loosely together, and another strip is wound carefully over them from right to left. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Showing Andaman Islander twisting strips together, seated on the ground, with twine held taut between the toes of the left foot.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1890-1893
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/5(7)
Title:: [Rope making in the Andaman Islands.] String, such as that described in the previous photograph is not used by itself, and two such strings have to be twisted together into a rope. The picture shows how this is done. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Showing a seated Andamanese Islander at work, the two pieces of string wound round a stick held between the toes of both feet. The letterpress goes on to describe the procedure in detail.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1890-1893
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/5(8)
Title:: [Rope making in the Andaman Islands.] View showing how the ball of cord is passed round. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1890-1893
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/5(9)
Title:: Making a turtle harpoon [Andaman Islands]. A circular piece of rod iron a quarter of an inch in diameter and nine inches long is worked to a sharp point at one end, and twine is wound, with wax, round the other end until a knob is formed. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1890-1893
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/5(10)
Title:: [Making a turtle harpoon, Andaman Islands]. View of Andaman bamboo jungle from which the shafts of turtle harpoons are cut. They are smoothed with a shell knife, straightened by hand and heat, and stood up to dry, in a manner similar to...the pig arrows. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography General view of bamboo thicket.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1890-1893
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/5(11)
Title:: Hut building in the Great Andaman Islands. [Construction of a 'chang-da' or hut of the second class.] Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Showing four Andamanese posed beside the four upright members of the hut whose construction is illustrated in prints 11-20. The series is accompanied by a long descriptive letterpress in which Portman distinguishes three principal types of dwelling erected by t...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1890-1893
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/5(12)
Title:: [Hut building in the Great Andaman Islands. Construction of a 'chang-da' or hut of the second class.] The front stakes are then connected by a stout cross-piece securely tied on with cane. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1890-1893
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/5(13)
Title:: [Hut building in the Great Andaman Islands. Construction of a 'chang-da' or hut of the second class.] The front and back of the hut are then connected by two stout sticks, parallel, projecting a foot in front of the hut and about 18 inches behind. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Showing main structural members of the hut in position. The photograph is a double exposure, with ghost images of Andamanese in position fixing these members in place.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1890-1893
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/5(14)
Title:: [Hut building in the Great Andaman Islands. Construction of a 'chang-da' or hut of the second class.] The leaves for thatching are in the meanwhile collected, generally by women. Cane leaf is mostly used, the view showing a single leaf. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Andaman Islander posed holding a palm frond.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1890-1893
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/5(15)
Title:: [Hut building in the Great Andaman Islands. Construction of a 'chang-da' or hut of the second class.] The leaf as gathered is however of no use, so it is split in two down the middle... Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Caption continues: '...by a shell knife, and three or four of the halves are doubled together and tied at intervals by their fronds.' Similarly posed to print 14.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1890-1893
Extent:: 1 item

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