IDNO

LS.89100.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Measurements 1.20-26
6 slides illustrating the taking of measurements head and other -
- Diagram illust. these measurements" [manuscript in ink]

Head measurement with caliphers. Man being measured squatting on the ground, while the person doing the measurement sits on a chair. Published image, autotype created by the Calcutta Autotype Company.
The published image in Susan Bayly’s book is captioned- "A uniformed Indian demonstrates techniques of anthropometric skull measurement. From a set of six lantern slides, probably used for University lectures on evolutionist race science" (1999: 120).

Place

S Asia; India; West Bengal; ?Calcutta

Cultural Affliation

Indian

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Date

1890- 1910

Collection Name

Teaching Slide Collection

Source

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: Image published by S.B. Bayly in Caste, Society and Politcs in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age, Cambridge Univesity Press, 1999.

Exhibition: Lanternslide exhibited at the Wellcome Trust, ‘Brains: the Mind as Matter’, from 29th March - 17th June 2012, with the label, "Anthropometric head measurement, India. Glass Lantern Slide". [JD 18/6/2012]

Record updated during Getty Grant Project. [SG 25/5/2004]