IDNO

LS.100475.WHR

Description

On Catalogue Card: "India, S. Toda. 120.89
boy and father- Keinba and Perpakh
K is holding the imitation bow and arrow and has his cloak over his head- he was married to a dead girl to whom he was matchini- bow and arrow for pursutpimi
Rivers figs. 57, p. 593"

Place

S Asia; India; South India; Nilgiri Hills

Cultural Affliation

Toda

Named Person

Keinba; Perpakh

Photographer

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

Collector / Expedition

Rivers, William Halse Rivers

Date

27 November 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: Image published in Rivers, 'The Todas', p.393, and captioned: "Fig. 57- Keinba and Perpakh; the former is holding in his hand the imitation bow and arrow and has his cloak over the head."
The image is published as a vignette. [JD 09/12/2021]

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