IDNO

LS.100481.WHR

Description

On Catalogue Card: "India, S. Toda. 120.99
leading the buffalo to be killed
W.H.R.R. fig. 52, p. 353"

The numbering in the lantern slide clearly reveals that there was some confusion while matching this image to its relevant catalogue card.

Place

S Asia; India; South India; Nilgiri Hills

Cultural Affliation

Toda

Named Person

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.

The photograph may have been taken by Rivers himself, although there is no negative for the prints.

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