IDNO

LS.100424.WHR

Description

On Catalogue Card: "India, S. Toda
Toda woman, head and shoulders, front and side face.
W.H.R.R. figs, 3, 4, p. 21"

Portrait, probably in a studio. Head and torso. Young woman wearing ornaments of the neck and a ring on third finger of the right hand, with her hair twisted in curls. Not named.

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.