Sculptured memorial slab from Balagamve, Mysore. Photographer: Dixon, Henry
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Genre: Archaeological Photography With original glass negative. Prints 112 and 113 are printed from different portions of the same negative. Negative stored in Neg. Box 255.
Toda house, Paikara Tiriari, Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Close view of a characteristic Toda house. Plate ix of James Wilkinson Breeks, 'An account of the primitive tribes and monuments of the Nilagiris' (India Museum, London, 1873).
Mukkurti Tiriari and Palals, Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
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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 ...
Kota men with forge, Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of three figures gathered round anvil. Plate xvi of James Wilkinson Breeks, 'An account of the primitive tribes and monuments of the Nilagiris' (India Museum, London, 1873).
Kotas playing and dancing, Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Posed group of musicians and dancers. Plate xviii of James Wilkinson Breeks, 'An account of the primitive tribes and monuments of the Nilagiris' (India Museum, London, 1873).
Kota village, Padugula, near Sholur, Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography View from hillside looking down onto village. l. xxi of James Wilkinson Breeks, An account of the primitive tribes and monuments of the Nilagiris (India Museum, London, 1873).