IDNO

LS.100577.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: India. Types. 118.56
Kadir, from Anaimalai
frizzy hair, thick lips.

Place

S Asia; India; South India; Kerala; (princely) Travancore; Near Coimbatore; Anaimalai Hills

Cultural Affliation

Kadir

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Thurston, Edgar

Date

pre 1909

Collection Name

Teaching Slide Collection

Source

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Thurston acknowledged his debt to Mr. H.A. Grass, the conservator of forest for information, and for his camp-life at Mount Stuart in the Sethumadai hills.

Publication: Image published in Edgar Thurston, 1909: Castes and Tribes of Southern India, Vol III, facing page 13. Thurston describes their "salient character" as "short stature, dark skin, platyrhine". [SG 2/20/2004]

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