‘A Toda Family and their Dwelling’
Date
1834
Creator
After
Justinian Gantz (1802, British) , Artist
Object type
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 165mm
width (print): 258mm
width (print): 258mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Landscape showing members of the Toda Tribe and their dwellings in the Nilgirri Mountains of the state of Tamil Nadu, southern India.
The image shows a mountainous landscape with trees and three brown half-barrel shaped huts. If front of the huts stand five members of the Toda Tribe, a naked infant resting on a woman who sits on the floor, next to the woman is an elderly man sat on a rock and next to him is a man standing and a man walking away past the huts. They all wear similar white robes. The drawing style is fairly simplistic coloured with vibrant greens, browns, yellows and blues.
The accompanying text describes the Todas People “The appearance of the Todas or Toruwars, who may be considered the original inhabitants of the hills, is very prepossessing.”
Plate 8 (not numbered) from the book Observations on the Neilgherries, including an account of their topography, climate, soil & productions… by R Baikie, Esq M.D. ed W.H. Smoult (Calcutta, 1834).
Inscribed below: ‘A TODA FAMILY AND THEIR DWELLING. J.B. Tassin lith. Drawn on stone by J. Bennett.’
Robert Baikie (1799-1889) British physician and East India Company surgeon in the Madras Army. Baikie retired from service in 1844 and then practised medicine in Edinburgh.
The image shows a mountainous landscape with trees and three brown half-barrel shaped huts. If front of the huts stand five members of the Toda Tribe, a naked infant resting on a woman who sits on the floor, next to the woman is an elderly man sat on a rock and next to him is a man standing and a man walking away past the huts. They all wear similar white robes. The drawing style is fairly simplistic coloured with vibrant greens, browns, yellows and blues.
The accompanying text describes the Todas People “The appearance of the Todas or Toruwars, who may be considered the original inhabitants of the hills, is very prepossessing.”
Plate 8 (not numbered) from the book Observations on the Neilgherries, including an account of their topography, climate, soil & productions… by R Baikie, Esq M.D. ed W.H. Smoult (Calcutta, 1834).
Inscribed below: ‘A TODA FAMILY AND THEIR DWELLING. J.B. Tassin lith. Drawn on stone by J. Bennett.’
Robert Baikie (1799-1889) British physician and East India Company surgeon in the Madras Army. Baikie retired from service in 1844 and then practised medicine in Edinburgh.
Associated place