IDNO

LS.100487.WHR

Description

On Catalogue Card: "India, S. Toda. 120.105
Rubbing foreheads to make tears come out a funeral
Thurston"

Rivers had procured the photograph from Edgar Thurston.

Place

S Asia; India; South India; Nilgiri Hills

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

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

Collector / Expedition

Thurston, Edgar; Rivers, William Halse Rivers

Date

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.