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040-003055498 Subject Portman Collection

1. Photo 188/3

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 188/3
Title:
Portman Collection: Andamanese Islanders, Vol. III. Photographer(s): Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:
Maroon half-leather bound volume measuring 405 x 34 6mm containing 27 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:
27 items

2. Photo 188/3(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 188/3(1)
Title:
Pig arrows 'Éla-Da' [Andaman Islands]. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Photograph of four arrow heads of various types, two with the heads detached from the shafts. Letterpress caption gives further details on use.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890-1893
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 188/3(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 188/3(2)
Title:
[Manufacture of arrow connector, Andaman Islands.] Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Photograph demonstrating the way in which the arrow connector, the length of cord and cane which attaches the arrow to the shaft, is manufactured.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890-1893
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 188/3(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 188/3(3)
Title:
[Method of sharpening arrows, Andaman Islands.] Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Showing an Andamanese Islander cleaning and wetting the flat oval whetstone by licking it. The letterpress describes the various forms of arrows used by the Andamanese.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890-1893
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 188/3(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 188/3(4)
Title:
[Method of sharpening arrows, Andaman Islands.] Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Caption in full reads: 'Photograph showing the manner in which the pig arrow is sharpened. The blade is held flat against the ball of the left foot, while it is sharpened with the edge of the whetstone worked from the body. As shown in the preceding photograph,...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890-1893
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 188/3(22)

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

7. Photo 188/3(23)

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

8. Photo 188/3(25)

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

9. Photo 188/3(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 188/3(9)
Title:
[Bow making, Andaman Islands.] Andamanese cutting off the selected piece. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Fourth stage in the manufacture of the bow.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890-1893
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 188/3(10)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 188/3(10)
Title:
[Bow making, Andaman Islands.] Carrying home the log. Observe the way the adze is carried, pushed through the waistband of the workman. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890-1893
Extent:
1 item

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