Title(s)

Portrait of Madeo and Kali, siblings from the Kurumba tribe of the Nilgiri mountains in Tamil Nadu, India

Object type

• photograph

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1122H-25

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘430.’
• inscription: ‘KURUBARS OR KURUMBARS./ PRIMITIVE TRIBE./ COORG AND NEELGERRIES’

Artist

• anonymous

Place

Nilgiris

Dating

c. 1865 - in or before 1875

Material

• photographic support

Technique

albumen print

Measurements

height 130 mm × width 81 mm

What

• human races; peoples; nationalities
• brothers or sisters (second degree family relationships)

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

Acquisition

purchase 2001

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• The people of India : a series of photographic illustrations, with descriptive letterpress, of the races and tribes of Hindustan Volume eight (RP-F-2001-7-1122H)