Archive Reference (shelfmark): Photo 188 - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/7(30)
Title:: A group of [Andamanese] men painted with óg and Tála-óg. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1890-1893
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/7(31)
Title:: A group of [Andamanese] women painted with óg. The three markings across the breats are very common. There are no superstitions attached to this painting, which is done for pleasure, coolness, ornament, and to keep off vermin. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length portrait of five women with bodies painted in varioius designs. Most figures slightly blurred through movement.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1890s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/7(32)
Title:: [Making the pig arrow, Andaman Islands.] The thick band which connects the head of the pig arrow 'Éla' is made as shown. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1890-1893
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/7(33)
Title:: [Making the pig arrow, Andaman Islands.] To ornament arrows and other articles the Andamanese bind a thin twine over with strips of the bark of an orchid, 'Dendrobium secundum' which has been roasted till it turns of a straw colour. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1890-1893
Extent:: 1 item

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/8
Title:: Portman Collection: Andamanese Islanders, Vol. VIII. [Anthropometric data.]
Scope & Content:: Small folio volume (foolscap size) containing anthropometric measurements and other physical data (including outline tracings of hands and feet) of 50 Andamanese males. The measurements were carried out by Portman and Surgeon-Major William Molesworth IMS between May and August 1893. A number of ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: May 1893-Aug 1893
Extent:: Unspecified

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/9
Title:: Portman Collection: Andamanese Islanders, Vol. IX. [Anthropometric data.]
Scope & Content:: Companion volume to Photo 188/8 (qv), in same format but containing details of 50 female subjects measured between June and November 1893. A few of the subjects are photographed in Photo 188/11. A collection of ethnographical data and anthropometrical measurements, entered on pre-printed forms,...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Jun 1893-Nov 1893
Extent:: Unspecified

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/10
Title:: Portman Collection: Andamanese Islanders, Vol. X. Photographer(s): Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Maroon half-leather bound volume measuring 405x357mm containing prints mounted one to a page with letterpress captions pasted beneath each image. The thick card pages of the album are somewhat bowed. The album contains a series of anthropometric studies of male Andaman Islanders, posed naked ful...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1893
Extent:: 25 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/10(1)
Title:: [Anthropometric photographs of Andaman Islanders.] Man of the Puchik-Wár tribe. Éremtága. Age about 27 years. No. 1 of the male series of measurements. The actual length of the sides of the squares in the background of these photographs is two inches. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length study, posed naked in front of a checked screen of two inch squares (to indicate scale). The left hand is extended horizontally and rests on a stand.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: May 1893
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/10(2)
Title:: [Anthropometric photographs of Andaman Islanders.] Balia. Profile view of the same man. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: May 1893
Extent:: 1 item

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