Toddy drawer. From edge of excavation of Raigir XI [or XII]. Photographer: Hunt, Edmund Henderson
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length standing portrait of a toddy drawer, holding the earthenware pots in which the liquid is collected. The enlarged copy of this image at print 9 gives the site as Raigir XII rather than XI. The site has not been identified, but is presumably in the fo...
Raigir: Mar 1st 1922. Cup-marked stone used by toddy drawers for grinding Black Trap to a fine powder with which they sharpen their knives, the powder being rubbed on to a stick of babool wood. Photographer: Hunt, Edmund Henderson
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Toddy drawer demonstrating the method of using the grinding stone, with a man and a woman standing in the background. The note by Hunt on the reverse of the mount continues: 'Several such stones are to be seen and in all the cups have been made in this manner. ...
[Toddy drawer climbing palm tree, Raigir.] Photographer: Hunt, Edmund Henderson
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Similar to print 6, but showing a different figure, slightly higher up the tree. [Sepia toned bromide print, 237x301mm]. Subjects = Hunt Collection; occupations; toddy drawers
[Toddy drawer climbing palm tree, Raigir.] Photographer: Hunt, Edmund Henderson
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Showing the figure seen in print 7, posed in crouching position in rope sling. [Sepia toned bromide print, 242x293mm]. Subjects = Hunt Collection; occupations; toddy drawers