IDNO

LS.100478.WHR

Description

On Catalogue Card: "India, S. Toda. 120.96
Funeral hut round which the woman are lamenting.
Several women are pressing their foreheads together. The hut is not within a stone circle, showing that the funeral is not being held at an old funeral place.
W.H.R.R. fig. 48, p. 339"

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Place

S Asia; India; South India; Nilgiri Hills

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.