Photograph
ca. 1873-1874 (made)
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Eight photographic studies of various South Asian Tribes and Castes. Individual images are based on a frontal portrait and profile to highlight a Panjabi Sikh, a Parsi male from Bombay, a bare chested male from Tranquebar in Southern India, and a frontal portrait of a male with his hair in a bun from the Bearer caste, Southern India.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Albumen prints made from collodion negatives |
| Brief description | Photograph by C.W.Dammann from the Anthropological and Ethnologies Album of Asia, 1873, Germany. |
| Physical description | Eight photographic studies of various South Asian Tribes and Castes. Individual images are based on a frontal portrait and profile to highlight a Panjabi Sikh, a Parsi male from Bombay, a bare chested male from Tranquebar in Southern India, and a frontal portrait of a male with his hair in a bun from the Bearer caste, Southern India. |
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| Object history | This photographic project was initiated by the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnography and pre-history in 1870. Damman was commisioned to photograph in a way that was useful to scientific study, even though his material was not sourced by direct contact, but through copying small picture post cards or Carte De Visite. |
| Historical context | The Anthropological and Ethnologies Album contained a series of photographs on fifty separate sheets comprising of various ethnic groups in Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe. The album was awarded a Bronze medal for its scientific interest in the Vienna International Exhibition of 1873, and printed in London ca.1875. |
| Bibliographic reference | Edwards, E (1982) 'Some Problems with Photographic Archives: The Case of C. W. Damman', Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, Vol.13, No 3, p257-361. |
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| Accession number | 75184 |
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| Record created | May 27, 2003 |
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