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Toda village

The Toda were a buffalo herding community living in the Nilgiri Mountains of South India. Their economy, diet and religion are based on the buffalo. The Todas used to be an ethnological hotspot due to their differences from their neighbours in terms of appearance, customs and rites. Photographs of the Todas (by Penn and others) were also published in "The People of India". Toda men and women squat and stand in front of a hut with a low entrance (to keep out buffalo and other animals), some men hold the shepherd's staff in their hands, a woman sits at the grinding stone, another holds a sieve (for the same person see VIII C 1537 ), all wear the typical clothing of the envelope cloth, behind the 2 huts rises a wooded hill

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Toda
Object type
positives (photographs)
Dimensions
Height: 21,9 cm
Width: 28,5 cm
Height: 31,7 cm
Width: 48,2 cm
Material/Technique
mounted on cardboard
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VIII C 1450

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1869 (photo)
    where
    India
    Tamil Nadu
    Nilgiri
    who
    Samuel Bourne (1834-10-30 - 1912-04-24) - Photographers
    Toda
  • Collecting
    who
    Riebeck, Emil - Collectors
    Königliches Kunstgewerbe-Museum Berlin - Former Possessors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    South and Southeast Asia

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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