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Photo 188/7

Record Id:: 040-003055624
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:: 032-003055444
MDARK:: ark:/81055/vdc_100025702187.0x0004c9
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Format:: ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 188/7
Title:: Portman Collection: Andamanese Islanders, Vol. VII. Photographer(s): Portman, Maurice Vidal
Scope & Content:: Maroon half-leather bound volume measuring 405x350mm containing 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
040-003055624
Is part of:: Photo 188 : Portman Collection: Photographs and anthropometric measurements of Andaman Islanders. Photographer(s): Portman, Maurice Vidal

Photo 188/7 : Portman Collection: Andamanese Islanders, Vol. VII. Photographer(s): Portman, Maurice Vidal
Contains:: Photo 188/7(1) : The chest and stomach of a man of the South Andaman group of tribes, showing the pattern of tattooing, or scarifying, common to…
Photo 188/7(2) : The tattooed [scarified] back of the same subject [as print 1]. The whole body is thus tattooed, but the face, the gentials, the…
Photo 188/7(3) : The tattooed [scarified] leg of a man of the South Andaman group of tribes. The women of this group are tattooed as much as, and in…
Photo 188/7(4) : The arm of a man of the North Andaman group of tribes, showing parallel lines of tattooing [scarification] encircling the arm.…
Photo 188/7(5) : [Scarification ceremony, North Andaman group.] Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Photo 188/7(6) : The tattooed [scarified] backs of men of the Tá-Kéda tribe [Andaman Islands]. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Photo 188/7(7) : The tattooed [scarified] backs of men of the Tá-Kéda tribe [Andaman Islands]. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Photo 188/7(8) : The tattooed [scarified] chest of a man of the Tá-Kéda tribe [Andaman Islands]. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Photo 188/7(9) : [Body painting in the Andaman Islands.] Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Photo 188/7(10) : [Body painting in the Andaman Islands.] The head of an Andamanese man being painted with Tála-óg. Photographer: Portman,…
Photo 188/7(11) : [Body painting in the Andaman Islands.] Smearing Koiób, a dark red pigment, onto the upper lip of an Andamanese man.…
Photo 188/7(12) : [Body painting in the Andaman Islands.] Koiób is also smeared on the body in straight or zigzag lines as shown.…
Photo 188/7(13) : [Body painting in the Andaman Islands.] Head of an Andamanese painted with Tála-óg. And a smear of Koiób on the nose and…
Photo 188/7(14) : [Body painting in the Andaman Islands. Painting the head of a widower with óg.] Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Photo 188/7(15) : Andamanese man in mourning for a near relation. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Photo 188/7(16) : A widow would have the whole of her head plastered over with a thick coating of Déla over which a wash of óg would be put,…
Photo 188/7(17) : [Andamanese man being bled by a woman.] Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Photo 188/7(18) : A man suffering from rheumatism in his left arm [Andaman Islands]. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Photo 188/7(19) : The man in the illustration is suffering from toothache [Andaman Islands]. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Photo 188/7(20) : When suffering from any chest or lung disease an Andamanese will tie a band of human bones round his chest, stuffing between the…
Photo 188/7(21) : Back view of the same man [seen in print 20]. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Photo 188/7(22) : Showing a man with the unusual adornment of a very small beard and moustache [Andaman Islands]. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Photo 188/7(23) : An Andamanese cannot really count beyond two. After that number his statement becomes indefinite, as 'a few',…
Photo 188/7(24) : For two he [an Andaman Islander] would strike his nose with his second finger as shown. Photographer: Portman, Maurice Vidal
Photo 188/7(25) : For three or more he [an Andaman Islander] would use the third finger, and also the remaining fingers of the other hand,…
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Hierarchy:: 032-003055444[0007]/040-003055624
Container:: View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 188
Record Type (Level):: File
Extent:: 34 items
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Techniques:: Photograph
Photographic Print
Platinum Print
Start Date:: 1890
End Date:: 1899
Date Range:: 1890s
Era:: CE
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Physical Characteristics:: Dimensions: 192 mm x 148 mm to 362 mm x 275 mm
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