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Photo 188/5
- Record Id:
- 040-003055562
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003055444
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100025702187.0x00048b
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 188/5
- Title:
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Portman Collection: Andamanese Islanders, Vol. V. Photographer(s): Portman, Maurice Vidal
- Scope & Content:
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Maroon half-leather bound volume measuring 405 x 35 0mm containing 28 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
040-003055562 - Is part of:
- Photo 188 : Portman Collection: Photographs and anthropometric measurements of Andaman Islanders. Photographer(s): Portman, Maurice Vidal
Photo 188/5 : Portman Collection: Andamanese Islanders, Vol. V. Photographer(s): Portman, Maurice Vidal - Contains:
- Photo 188/5(1) : Chókio. Bow of the North Andaman tribes. The photograph shows the lower ends of these bows when unstrung, the backs of the bows…
Photo 188/5(2) : Chókio. Bow of the North Andaman tribes. The upper ends of the bows, when unstrung. Back, front, and side are shown.…
Photo 188/5(3) : Rope making [in the Andaman Islands]. The strongest rope used by the Andamanese, (and it possesses very considerable strength),…
Photo 188/5(4) : [Rope making in the Andaman Islands.] Andamanese cutting a branch of 'Alaba-da' (Melochia velutina). A branch of the tree is…
Photo 188/5(5) : [Rope making in the Andaman Islands.] The workman then holds the log in this position, and raises the bark at one end, by…
Photo 188/5(6) : [Rope making in the Andaman Islands.] Three or four of the strips are taken, twisted loosely together, and another strip is…
Photo 188/5(7) : [Rope making in the Andaman Islands.] String, such as that described in the previous photograph is not used by itself, and two…
Photo 188/5(8) : [Rope making in the Andaman Islands.] View showing how the ball of cord is passed round. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Photo 188/5(9) : Making a turtle harpoon [Andaman Islands]. A circular piece of rod iron a quarter of an inch in diameter and nine inches long…
Photo 188/5(10) : [Making a turtle harpoon, Andaman Islands]. View of Andaman bamboo jungle from which the shafts of turtle harpoons are cut. They…
Photo 188/5(11) : Hut building in the Great Andaman Islands. [Construction of a 'chang-da' or hut of the second class.] Photographer:…
Photo 188/5(12) : [Hut building in the Great Andaman Islands. Construction of a 'chang-da' or hut of the second class.] The front stakes are…
Photo 188/5(13) : [Hut building in the Great Andaman Islands. Construction of a 'chang-da' or hut of the second class.] The front and back of…
Photo 188/5(14) : [Hut building in the Great Andaman Islands. Construction of a 'chang-da' or hut of the second class.] The leaves for…
Photo 188/5(15) : [Hut building in the Great Andaman Islands. Construction of a 'chang-da' or hut of the second class.] The leaf as gathered…
Photo 188/5(16) : [Hut building in the Great Andaman Islands. Construction of a 'chang-da' or hut of the second class.] Making the…
Photo 188/5(17) : [Hut building in the Great Andaman Islands. Construction of a 'chang-da' or hut of the second class. Making the thatch.]…
Photo 188/5(18) : [Hut building in the Great Andaman Islands. Construction of a 'chang-da' or hut of the second class. Making the thatch.]…
Photo 188/5(19) : [Hut building in the Great Andaman Islands. Construction of a 'chang-da' or hut of the second class. Making the thatch.]…
Photo 188/5(20) : [Hut building in the Great Andaman Islands. Construction of a 'chang-da' or hut of the second class. The completed…
Photo 188/5(21) : [Hut making in the Great Andaman Islands. Construction of a temporary hut]. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Photo 188/5(22) : [Hut making in the Great Andaman Islands. Construction of a temporary hut]. Uprights and cross-pieces are then put up as shown,…
Photo 188/5(23) : [Hut making in the Great Andaman Islands. Construction of a temporary hut]. Rafters are then tied, from the front to the back of…
Photo 188/5(24) : [Hut making in the Great Andaman Islands. Construction of a temporary hut]. The bundles of leaves are then tied on to these…
Photo 188/5(25) : [Hut making in the Great Andaman Islands. Construction of a temporary hut]. Completed hut. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
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- 032-003055444[0005]/040-003055562
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 188
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 28 items
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Techniques:
- Photograph
Photographic Print
Platinum Print - Start Date:
- 1890
- End Date:
- 1899
- Date Range:
- 1890s
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 188 mm x 149 mm to 297 mm x 382 mm
- Source of Acquisition:
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Gift, Presented by the Government of India, Home Department
- 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