IDNO

LS.100418.WHR

Description

On Catalogue Card: "India, S. Toda
Man, half-length, front and side view
W.H.R. Rivers "The Todas" pp. 19, 20
figs. 1, 2.
The image is published as "FIG.1-TODA MAN. FULL FACE" inThe Todas (p.19).
Portrait, head and three quarters, right hand in front. Man with beard, wearing the woven putkuli with an embroidered border (pukuru) that covers the left shoulder. Right shoulder is bare.
The person remains unnamed anywhere.

Place

S Asia; India; South India; Nilgiri Hills; ?Ootacamund

Cultural Affliation

Toda

Named Person

Photographer

?Wiele & Klein Photograph Studio (Wiele, H.R.; Klein,Theodor)

Collector / Expedition

Rivers, William Halse Rivers

Date

?1902

Collection Name

Rivers CollectionTeaching Slide Collection

Source

Rivers, William Halse Rivers

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

It is not certain whether these lantern slides were part of Rivers bequest, or were already a part of the Museum’s teaching collection before Rivers died.


This record was updated during research supported by Getty Grant Program One.