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11. Photo 188/2(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 188/2(9)
Title:
[Adze making, Andaman Islands.] The end is then cut to the right length, and smoothed. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890-1893
Extent:
1 item

12. Photo 188/2(20)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 188/2(20)
Title:
[Adze making, Andaman Islands.] A view showing the exact way in which an adze is held. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890-1893
Extent:
1 item

13. Photo 188/2(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 188/2(2)
Title:
'Uta' shell held in the right hand. Inside of the shell visible. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Similar to print 1, but photographed from the other side.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890-1893
Extent:
1 item

14. Photo 188/2(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 188/2(4)
Title:
[Adze making, Andaman Islands.] The superfluous part of the branch is now lopped off, and a cut is made in the tree to the proper depth, below, and close to it. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890-1893
Extent:
1 item

15. Photo 188/2(10)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 188/2(10)
Title:
[Adze making, Andaman Islands.] Another view showing the method of cutting, and the way the tool is held. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Similar to plate 9.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890-1893
Extent:
1 item

16. Photo 188/2(17)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 188/2(17)
Title:
[Adze making, Andaman Islands.] View showing the way in which the cane is finally fastened. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Thirteenth stage in the manufacture of the adze.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890-1893
Extent:
1 item

17. Photo 188/2(25)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 188/2(25)
Title:
[Bow making, Andaman Islands. Smoothing the shaped bow with a sharpened pig's tusk.] Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Seated Andaman Islander at work. The long letterpress caption describes the working method, the dog tooth patterns later applied with a Cyrena shell and the occasionally used method of soaking the wood to make it more easily workable: 'Being made of green wood ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890-1893
Extent:
1 item

18. Photo 188/2(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 188/2(5)
Title:
[Adze making, Andaman Islands.] A similar cut is then made, above, and at some little distance from the handle. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890-1893
Extent:
1 item

19. Photo 188/2(11)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 188/2(11)
Title:
[Adze making, Andaman Islands.] The adze with which the work has so far been done having become blunt, is sharpened with a piece of sandstone, which the Andamanese manufacture into whetstones 'Tàlag'. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890-1893
Extent:
1 item

20. Photo 188/2(12)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 188/2(12)
Title:
[Adze making, Andaman Islands.] The bark is now beaten off the new adze haft. It will be seen from this that the Andamanese use the reversed adze as a hammer. The haft is then trimmed to balance well in the hand. 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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