IDNO

P.36562.ACH2

Description

Procession with Nambudiri bridegroom holding an umbrella.

Place

S Asia; India; Kerala; Cochin

Cultural Affliation

Nambudiri

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Iyer, L.K. Ananthakrishna

Date

Collection Name

?Unmounted Haddon Collection

Source

Ananthakrishna Iyer, L. K.?Haddon, Alfred Cort (Dr)

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

The prints P.36561 to P.36571 were found in an envelope now marked C104/1/, inside the envelope now marked C104/. This was in the wooden drawer numbered IV.

Expedition: P.36561 to P.36571 are all of the Nambudri community in Kerala, and were taken for Iyer’s survey, and subsequently published in two volumes in 1909 and 1912, as “The Cochin Tribes and Castes”. The photographs can be dated between 1900-1910. [Sudeshna Guha, 2003]

Source: A long introduction to the second volume was written by Haddon and it is possible that the photographs may have come to the Museum via him. [Sudeshna Guha, 2003]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program One. [Sudeshna Guha, 2003]