[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
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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 ...
[Bow making, Andaman Islands. Stringing the bow.] Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
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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...
[Bow making, Andaman Islands. Stringing the bow.] Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
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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.'
[Bow making, Andaman Islands. Unstringing the bow.] Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
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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 ...