IDNO

LS.100423.WHR

Description

On Catalogue Card: India, S. Toda
Man Siriar (20) with wife and child showing method of wearing the ‘putkuli’ standing.
W.H.R.R.
fig. 9, p. 30.

Place

S Asia; India; South India; Nilgiri Hills; Village Taradr

Cultural Affliation

Toda

Named Person

Siriar; Pupidz (wife); Enkutan (child)

Photographer

None

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 may have been photographed by Rivers himself.

Publication: Image published in The Todas as figure 9, captioned "A Toda man, Siriar (20), with his wife and child showing the ordinary method of wearing the Putkuli".

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