3351. 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