IDNO

P.57765.HUT

Description

Four women, standing. Bare breast with cloth covering their lower bodies, three wearing bead necklaces, nose and arm ornaments. Two wear long round earrings. Of the four one is an older woman.

Place

S Asia; India; South India; Cochin State

Cultural Affliation

Vishawan

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Hutton, John Henry; Ananthakrishna Iyer, L.K.

Date

Collection Name

Hutton Collection

Source

Ananthakrishna Iyer, L. K.Hutton, John Henry

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.57763.HUT to P. 57768.HUT were found inside the envelope now numbered CC291/1/1/. This came from C291/1/ which was found inside C291/. The latter was kept in from Wooden Drawer IV.

Expedition: The photographs were taken during Ananthakrishna Iyer’s ethnographical survey of the Cochin State.

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