IDNO

LS.100455.WHR

Description

On Catalogue Card: "India, S. Toda. 120.58
The Palol, Karkievan, saluting at Modr, he is standing in the pepkarmus
the building next to the palol is the poh
on the right is the karenpoh
between the two is the hut where the inhabitants of the mad sleep.
W.H.R. fig. 27, p. 95"

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Toda

Named Person

Karkievan

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.

Publication: Published as fig. 27 in The Todas, captioned the ‘palol’ Karkievan, saluting at Modr. He is standing in the ‘Pepkarmus’. The building next to the ‘Palol’ is the ‘Ti Poh’; that on the right is the ‘Karenpoh’, and between it and the ‘Ti Poh’ can be seen the hut where the inhabitabts of the ‘Ti Mad’ sleep (1906: 95). [S. Guha 7/1/2004]

Expedition: Rivers acknowledged that he knew the dairy at Modr the best, as he visited it on many occassion. However, he was never allowed to go near the walls enclosing the dairies, or inside the buildings. He obtained his information from two former palols (of Nodrs and Kars), owing to ‘the restrictions on intercourse with so sacred personage as a palol’, He mentioned that he did clarify with Karkievan, when he visited Modrs, on points about which the ex-officials were in doubt (see 1906: 83-95). [S. Guha 7/1/2004]

This record was updated during research supported by Getty Grant Program One. [S. Guha 7/1/2004]