IDNO

LS.120706.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card for duplicate print P.6253.ACH1: Kadir boy. From Thurston

Image published as Kadir boy with chipped teeth. On this print, the printed caption under the image reads "Kadir boy". [SG 2/20/2004]

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

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

LS.120673.TC1 - LS.120734.TC1 were found unaccessioned in Drawer S.97, with a note stating there were originally found in the Board Room, March 1980. There are no catalogue cards for this drawer.

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]