IDNO

LS.100597.WHR

Description

On Catalogue Card: "India, S. Toda. 120.11
Man and woman, 3/4 length, of the Peiki clan
Marshall, 16, p.136"

Published as figure 16 in Marshall’s W.E.1873. A Phrenologist amongst the Todas or the Study of the primitive tribe in South India-History, character, customs, religion, infanticide, polandry, language, (London, Longmans Green and Co).

Image vignetted.

Place

S Asia; India; South India; Nilgiri Hills; ?Ootacamund

Cultural Affliation

Toda

Named Person

Photographer

?Nichols and Curths

Collector / Expedition

Rivers, William Halse Rivers

Date

1860 - 1870

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.