IDNO

P.51159.ACH2

Description

On accompanying list: “Paniyan 1. More african looking than Indian about 5ft high. Men wear a veti round loins and 2 clothes- masses of blue black hair in rippling waves” [manuscript in ink; Milward’s handwriting]

Place

S Asia; India; South India

Cultural Affliation

Paniyan

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Milward, Marguerite

Date

Collection Name

Unmounted Haddon Collection

Source

Milward, Marguerite

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.51159.ACH2 to P.51162.ACH2 were in envelope now numbered C215/1/9/ which was in C215/1/. The latter was found inside C215/ which came from wooden drawer V.

The prints P.51101.ACH2 to P.51240.ACH2 are described by Marguerite Milward in an accomapnying list which she sent to Kathleen Rishbeth in February 1950. See archive reference. Milward’s book “Artist in Unknown India” gives an account of the tribes and the regions in these photographs.