IDNO

LS.75624.

Description

On Catalogue Card for duplicate print P.6253.ACH1: Kadir boy. From Thurston

Image published as Kadir boy with chipped teeth. On this print, the printed caption under the image reads "Kadir boy". [SG 2/20/2004]

Place

S Asia; India; Kerala; (princely) Travancore; near Coimbatore; Anaimalai Hills

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Thurston, Edgar

Date

pre 1909

Collection Name

Source

?Minns

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

LS.75549. to LS.75745. were found inside the wooden tray now numbered C360/.

The slides were accompanied by a list providing the number from each geographic area and at times the book from which the image was taken. See Bay N/Shelf3/Box1/.
There was also a note recording that the slides were removed from their original location to make room for Bateman prints.

LS.75624. to LS.75626. were taken from Thurston’s book ‘Castes and Tribes of Southern India’.

Publication: See Thurston, Edgar. 1909: Castes and Tribes of Southern India, Vol. III, facing page 27.
Thurston: "the Kadirs say that chipped teeth make an ugly man or woman handsome, and that a person whose teeth have not been operated on, has teeth and eats like a cow" (1909: 26). [SG 2/20/2004]