Thurston collection.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, current owner.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--India.

Ethnology.

East Indians--Social life and customs.

East Indians.

East Indians--Photographs.

India, South--Photographs.

India, South.

South India.

India.

Genre:

Photographs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Production:

1906.

Contents:

A Palayan male; profile, 1906

Portrait of a man from the Shanar caste; full face, 1906

Portrait of a man from the east coast Kammalan community; full face, 1906

Portrait of a man from the Vokkaliga community; full face, 1906

Man from the Kurumba community; full face, 1906

Portrait of a woman from the Paniyan community; full face, 1906

Sacred rock scratched for applying to forehead and curing headache. A man scratches the rock with his finger, 1906

Bagada man wearing a white turban and a long white shawl, 1906

Bagada man wearing a more modern attire as compared with picture 400.6185, that is a dhoti, kurta and a woollen hat, 1906

Gadaba woman wearing a bustle; profile, 1906

Group of three Pulayan men with torsos smeared with sandal paste; full face, 1906

A group of Makkuvan fishermen wearing broads palm hats, 1906

A Yanadi male with his head shaved in front; full face, 1906

Young woman from the Tiyan community; full face, 1906

Two Paniyan boys making fire by horizontal method, 1906

Young Tiyan woman, bare breasted, with an umbrella; full face, 1906

Portrait of a lady, 1906

Lingayat wearing lingam in a casket, 1906

Ulladans wearing Areka palm caps, 1906

Lingayat woman wearing lingam in casket, 1906

A half-caste male; Tamil and African; full face, 1906

Yanadis making fire by friction, 1906

Portrait of a Sholaga man; full face, 1906

Shanar girl with dilated ear lobes; full face, 1906

Ulladan man aiming upwards with a crossbow, 1906

A Kadir man climbing a huge tree using a bamboo peg, 1906

Nayadi ancestral stone-circle around a tree, 1906

A Kadir man climbing a tree using bamboo pegs, 1906

A village of thatched huts among palm trees, 1906

Iron cages for exhibiting executed robbers in the Teluga country, 1906

A metal statuette of Sidi Viranna, substituted for a human being in hook swinging ceremony, 1906

Hook swinging ceremony of Sidi Viranna, 1906

A wooden post used for human sacrifice, 1906

A Kadir man climbing a tree using a steps inserted into the tree trunk, 1906

A group of Tiyans at Malabar; full length, 1906

Ownership marks on prehistoric pots, 1906

Prehistoric pottery vessel, 1906

A collection of Palaeolithic stone tools, 1906

A collection of prehistoric pottery vessels, 1906

A collection of Iron Age spear/arrow heads, 1906

A collection of lids of prehistoric pots, figurine and animal shaped, from the Nilgiri hills, 1906

Prehistoric pottery shards from South India, with finger ornamentation and snake design, 1906

A prehistoric burial urn from South India, 1906

Table of head measurements (cephalic indexes) from South India, 1906

Table of deviations in head length and breadth (S. India), 1906

A Ganiga bride; wearing chaplet on head and bashingam on the forehead; full face, 1906

A Teluga male, with a Vaishnavite tilaka on his forehead; from Banajiga; full face, 1906

Three men standing full view, wearing short lungi, holding large baskets on their heads, 1906

Toda women rubbing foreheads to produce tears at funeral, 1906

A cluster of four thatched wooden buildings behind a stone wall, on the outskirts of a jungle, 1906

A man climbing a palm tree with ba vessel hanging from his waist, 1906

A Patnulkaran weaver with his first wife and bride (second wife); all sitting, 1906

A Kadir male of the Anamalai Hills; full face, 1906

Portrait of a mendicant, full view. He has long matted hear and lots of ornaments (such as bangles, masks, bells, fly whisks etc.) attached to his body. Large carved plate attached to his torso, 1906

Portrait of a Shivaite man (Lingayat). A small casket visible at his waist, 1906

A Gadaba female holding a baby; full face, 1906

A Shanar male; full face, 1906

A Nair girl from Travancone; full length; full face, 1906

An Inadiga male; full face, 1906

A Kanikar male from Travancona, with bow and arrows, 1906

Portrait of a Vaishnavite Brahman with large tilaka marks on his forehead, arms and torso, 1906

Portrait of a Lingayat man (torso) with a cloth head covering containing lingam, 1906

A man and a child sitting in a tree shelter. The man is holding a bow and arrows, 1906

Two Komati males; full face, 1906

Group of three girls kneeling around bowls with rice and curry, 1906

Portrait of a young bridegroom, wearing turban, earrings and elaborate ornaments on his neck. Visible Vaishnavite tilaka and sacred thread, 1906

Group of Pulayan/Paraiyan people listening to a local missionary, who is dressed all in white, 1906

A Syrian Christian bride; full face, 1906

An elderly Vaishnava (Madhva) Brahman, sitting crossed legged, with tilaka marks all over his torso, 1906

A male and female Nambutori Brahman; three quarter face and profile, 1906

A Linga from Banajiga; profile, 1906

Portrait of a Lingayat man wearing lingam in a cloth wrapped around his arm, and rudraksha beads on his neck, 1906

A Kadir girl wearing a bamboo comb on her head; full face, 1906

A Komati male; full face, 1906

Young Syrian Christian bridegroom, with elaborate cross pendant on his neck, 1906

Two elderly Gadaba women; standing; full face, 1906

Portrait of a young woman wearing sari and silver ornaments (belt, necklaces and earrings); full face, 1906

Lingayat man wearing lingam in casket on his neck, 1906

A Tanda Palayan girl in a leaf garment; full length, 1906

A Kadir woman with dilated ear lobes; three quarter face, 1906

Two women, one with a crying baby in a sack attached to her back, 1906

Man dressed for a leaf festival, 1906

Group of two men (one older supporting himself on a walking stick) and two women (one with a child in her arms) from the Ulladan community, 1906

Portrait (waist up) of a young Brahman; judging from the tilaka mark on his forehead, he is a Vaishnava (Vishnavite) rather than Shaiva, as the caption says, 1906

Young woman, wearing sari and ear and neck ornaments; full face, 1906

Syrian Christian bride and bridegroom, 1906

A Nair female; three quarter face, 1906

Lingayat man wearing lingam in a cloth sack around neck, 1906

A portrait of a man, profile view, 1906.

Notes:

Collection no.: THC.

Online resource.

OCLC:

1090118334

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.