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Subject Todas

21. Photo 1000/10(1106)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/10(1106)
Title:
Todas at play, Nilgir Hills. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Posed group, with man crawling through low cairn of stones and another man in pursuit. The game is called narthpimi (see p.10). With two women seated in the background. Plate x of James Wilkinson Breeks, 'An account of the primitive tribes and monuments of the...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

22. Photo 1000/10(1107)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/10(1107)
Title:
Todas with clubs, etc., Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of four Toda men, carrying spears and clubs. One figure appears to be playing a flute-like instrument, while the crouching figure on the left holds a stringed instrument. Plate xi of James Wilkinson Breeks, 'An account of the primitive tribes and monument...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

23. Photo 1000/10(1108)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/10(1108)
Title:
Mukkurti Tiriari and Palals, Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography General view of mund on hillside: 'There are five kinds of [Toda] priests, who rank as follows:- I. Palals...who, according to the regular sequence of Toda ideas, are a mixture of ascetic and herdman. They live at isolated mands called Tiriaris.' The mund seen ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

24. Photo 1000/10(1109)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/10(1109)
Title:
Boa (Toda temple) at Muttinand Mund, Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Conical roofed structure. Plate xiii of James Wilkinson Breeks, 'An account of the primitive tribes and monuments of the Nilagiris' (India Museum, London, 1873).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

25. Photo 1000/10(1110)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/10(1110)
Title:
Toda green funeral, Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Toda group, with sacrificed buffaloes (the herd of the deceased) in the foreground. The ceremony is described in detail on pp. 19-23. plate xiv of James Wilkinson Breeks, 'An account of the primitive tribes and monuments of the Nilagiris' (India Museum, London,...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

26. Photo 1000/11(1180)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/11(1180)
Title:
Toda mund, Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography View of Toda huts in an unidentified mund. Not used in Breeks.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1871
Extent:
1 item

27. Photo 1000/11(1181)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/11(1181)
Title:
Toda huts with a boa or temple in the foreground, Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography The boa is the conical thatched building (see also print 1109). Not used in Breeks.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1871
Extent:
1 item

28. Photo 1000/11(1183)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/11(1183)
Title:
Toda man, Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Head and shoulders profile portrait. Not used in Breeks (although a portrait of the same man is used as plate v). Print surface marked by crazing of collodion negative.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1871
Extent:
1 item

29. Photo 1000/39(4068)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/39(4068)
Title:
General view of a Toda mund or village in the Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of characteristic Toda huts, with a European bungalow in the background. Probably taken near Udagamandalam (Ootacamund). Print shown at the Paris International Exhibition of 1867.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1865-1866
Extent:
1 item

30. Photo 1000/42(4385)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4385)
Title:
Toda village behind Sylk's Hotel, Ootacamund. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
View of two Toda houses, with family group posed in foreground.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item