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285 x 191 mm. View looking across rolling hills with Badaga houses in the foreground. Photograph by A.T.W. Penn no. 62.

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Image 118 x 160 mm. on paper 152 x 199 mm. Full length studio portrait of four aboriginal women, two standing and two seated. The women are grouped around a sheaf of wheat, with a woven basket in the foreground. One of the women holds a sickle. The precise ethnic group has not been identified, but is possibly Badaga (see Thurston, ‘Castes and tribes of Southern India’, vol 1 pp. 63-124).

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Image 140 x 175 mm. on paper 152 x 199 mm. Showing three young children (female) grouped beside a barrel. The ethnic group has not been precisely identified, but these may be Kurumba children (compare with photograph reproduced in Edgar Thurston, ‘Castes and tribes of Southern India’ (7 vols, Madras, 1909), vol 7, facing pp. 161, 163).

Scope and Contents 279 x 213 mm. Showing a group of Toda men, women and children posed in front of a characteristic Toda house in a ‘mund’ or village near Ootacamund. The caption refers to the young girl posed in the act of placing her forehead on the raised foot of the eldest member of the group. The Todas, an Indigenous people of cattle rearers living on the Nilgiri plateau around Ootacamund, attracted a great deal of ethnologic study. For more details, see Y3022 DD/1. This print is reproduced in Edgar...

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232 x 280 mm. View looking along a steep wooded gorge in the Nilgiris. Photograph by A.T.W. Penn no. 232.

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285 x 215 mm. View looking along the Kullar Bridge on the Nilgiri Railway from Mettupalaiyan to Ootacamund. Built with piers of local stone connected by plate girder spans, the bridge was constructed in 1899.

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Showing a Toda family grouped in front of their hut: see Y3022DD/1.

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Showing a group of Todas posed in the porch of their distinctive thatched hut: see note at Y3022DD/1.

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Showing a Toda hut surrounded by a stone wall.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: An album containing prints measuring 69 x 95 mm, with handwritten captions. The captions have been used as titles and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. The flyleaf is inscribed 'To Lieut. Colonel G.S. Walker, I.M.S. with compliments and thanks from the photographer. 1901.' George Lemon Walker (29.7.1849-31.5.1901) was born in Kingston, Ontario and served in the Madras Medical Service...

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Half-plate (landscape format). View of the hills rising abruptly from out of the plains, taken from a point seven miles from Coonoor called Lady Canning's Seat - showing the Droog, from the top of which prisoners of war used to be thrown.

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Half-plate (landscape format). View of the hills rising abruptly from out of the plains, taken from a point seven miles from Coonoor called Lady Canning's Seat - showing the Droog, from the top of which prisoners of war used to be thrown.

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Landscape format.

Scope and Contents From the File: The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 168-346 (originally there were 165). Added numbers are: 200A, 263A, 270A-D, 280A, 296A, 335A-B; spoiled: 234; not used: 170, 172, 173, 175, 199, 203, 204, 216, 226, 228, 240-242, 253, 255, 257, 258, 262, 300, 314, 325, 326, 334; missing: 333. Numbers 270A-D and 280A are by Hutchins. The photographs are not arranged totally in numerical order within the album so that 280A follows 337. Subjects covered in this album...

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207 x 152 mm. Duplicate of Y3022H/38.

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208 x 152 mm.