IDNO

LS.100578.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: India Types. 118.59
Kadir boy, head and shoulders, front view.
from Anaimalai.
with chipped teeth.

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

Publication: See Thurston, Edgar. 1909: Castes and Tribes of Southern India, Vol. III, facing page 27.
Thurston: "the Kadirs say that chipped teeth make an ugly man or woman handsome, and that a person whose teeth have not been operated on, has teeth and eats like a cow" (1909: 26). [SG 2/20/2004]

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