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Photo 188/4
- Record Id:
- 040-003055526
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003055444
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100025702187.0x000467
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 188/4
- Title:
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Portman Collection: Andamanese Islanders, Vol. IV. Photographer(s): Portman, Maurice Vidal
- Scope & Content:
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Maroon half-leather bound volume measuring 405 x 340 mm, containing 35 platinum prints mounted one to a page with letterpress captions of varying lengths pasted beneath each image. The thick card pages of the album are somewhat bowed.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003055444
040-003055526 - Is part of:
- Photo 188 : Portman Collection: Photographs and anthropometric measurements of Andaman Islanders. Photographer(s): Portman, Maurice Vidal
Photo 188/4 : Portman Collection: Andamanese Islanders, Vol. IV. Photographer(s): Portman, Maurice Vidal - Contains:
- Photo 188/4(1) : [Shooting with the South Andaman bow. Karam-da.] The bow is then reversed for use, and this view shows a man in the act of…
Photo 188/4(2) : [Shooting with the South Andaman bow. Karam-da.] Different ways in which the hands are held in the delivery of the arrow. One…
Photo 188/4(3) : [Shooting with the South Andaman bow. Karam-da.] Delivery of arrow. Another method. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Photo 188/4(4) : [Shooting with the South Andaman bow. Karam-da.] Delivery of arrow. Another method. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Photo 188/4(5) : [Shooting with the South Andaman bow. Karam-da.] Delivery of arrow. Another method. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Photo 188/4(6) : [Shooting with the South Andaman bow. Karam-da.] Delivery of arrow. Another method. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Photo 188/4(7) : [Shooting with the South Andaman bow. Karam-da.] Delivery of arrow. Another method. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Photo 188/4(8) : [Unstringing the South Andaman bow. Karam-da.] To unstring the bow it is again placed in the same position as for stringing, the…
Photo 188/4(9) : [The South Andaman bow.] The bow string is made from 'Yolba' (Anadendron paniculatum) fibre, a low bush with long scandent…
Photo 188/4(10) : [The South Andaman bow: making the bow string.] The bundle of shoots is brought home and laid by the man's side; ... in this…
Photo 188/4(11) : [The South Andaman bow: making the bow string.] Back view of a man teasing 'Yolba' fibre. Photographer: Portman, Maurice…
Photo 188/4(12) : [The South Andaman bow: making the bow string.] Scraping the bark off. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Photo 188/4(13) : [The South Andaman bow: making the bow string.] Cutting the shoots into pieces, at the joints. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Photo 188/4(14) : [The South Andaman bow: making the bow string. Rolling the fibre into twine.] Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Photo 188/4(15) : [The South Andaman bow: making the bow string.] Two of these pieces of twine are then twisted together thus, and the cord made…
Photo 188/4(16) : [The South Andaman bow: making the bow string.] Four or five pieces of the twisted twine, and pieces of the loose fibre are…
Photo 188/4(17) : [The South Andaman bow: making the bow string. Stripping bark from the cinnamon tree.] Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Photo 188/4(18) : View of the South Andaman bows strung. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Photo 188/4(19) : View of the South Andaman bows unstrung. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Photo 188/4(20) : [The South Andaman bow.] The lower end of unstrung bows, showing how the loose end of the string is secured to the bow.…
Photo 188/4(21) : Lower end of South Andaman bows when strung. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Photo 188/4(22) : Upper end of a South Andaman bow. The string at this end is never removed from the bow. Notice that in these bows the stringing…
Photo 188/4(23) : [Making the South Andaman bow.] Method of holding the pig's tusk when smoothing or planing the wood of the bow. The tusk is…
Photo 188/4(24) : Andamanese cutting bamboos. The long ones are used as shafts for the turtle harpoon, the short shoots as arrow shafts.…
Photo 188/4(25) : Andamanese cutting 'Ridi', a kind of crooked bamboo, thin and with short joints, which is generally used for arrow shafts.…
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- 032-003055444[0004]/040-003055526
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 188
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 35 items
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Techniques:
- Photograph
Photographic Print
Platinum Print - Start Date:
- 1890
- End Date:
- 1893
- Date Range:
- 1890-1893
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 110 mm x 154 mm to 350 mm x 279 mm
- Source of Acquisition:
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Gift, 1893: Presented by the Government of India, Home Department, December 1893.
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known
- Names:
- Portman, Maurice Vidal, 1860-1935
- Subjects:
- Andamanese
Anthropology
Ethnic groups
Ethnography
Named Collections
Portman Collection
Science
South Asian Ethnic Groups - Places:
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India, Asia