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Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/7(4)
Title:: The arm of a man of the North Andaman group of tribes, showing parallel lines of tattooing [scarification] encircling the arm. These marks are cut with the blade of a pig arrow. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Close-up of arm. Caption continues: 'Before iron was easily procurable by the Andamanese, the blades of these arrows were made of a red stone, also of a tertiary sandstone (a form of jasper), found in these islands. This remark only applies to the North Andaman...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1890-1893
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/7(5)
Title:: [Scarification ceremony, North Andaman group.] Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Scene shows a youth held down over the knees of an elder man squatting on the ground, while another man incises patterned cuts down his back. A group of women arranged in a semi-circle behind stand with their hands held palms together in front of them. The acco...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1890-1893
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/7(6)
Title:: The tattooed [scarified] backs of men of the Tá-Kéda tribe [Andaman Islands]. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Close-up view of scarification patterns.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1890-1893
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/7(7)
Title:: The tattooed [scarified] backs of men of the Tá-Kéda tribe [Andaman Islands]. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Similar to print 6, but including head and shoulders in photograph.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1890-1893
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/7(8)
Title:: The tattooed [scarified] chest of a man of the Tá-Kéda tribe [Andaman Islands]. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography close-up view of torso.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1890-1893
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/7(9)
Title:: [Body painting in the Andaman Islands.] Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Man and woman seated on the ground, the woman painting the stomach of the man with a zigzag pattern. Accompanying letterpress reads (in part): 'Tála-óg is used for the fine patterns; and this earth, which is rare, is kept in large Pinna shells, mixed with a li...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1890-1893
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/7(10)
Title:: [Body painting in the Andaman Islands.] The head of an Andamanese man being painted with Tála-óg. 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 188/7(11)
Title:: [Body painting in the Andaman Islands.] Smearing Koiób, a dark red pigment, onto the upper lip of an Andamanese man. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Head and shoulders portrait.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1890-1893
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/7(12)
Title:: [Body painting in the Andaman Islands.] Koiób is also smeared on the body in straight or zigzag lines 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/7(13)
Title:: [Body painting in the Andaman Islands.] Head of an Andamanese painted with Tála-óg. And a smear of Koiób on the nose and upper lip. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Curved line of diamond shapes in white along the side of face.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1890-1893
Extent:: 1 item

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