{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O81439"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O81439/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2006AH2844/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2006AH2844/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2006AH2844","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2011FB3678","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2015HP2731","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O81439/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O81439","accessionNumber":"59358","objectType":"Photograph","titles":[],"summaryDescription":"","physicalDescription":"Group portrait of Toda women wearing traditional hairstyles and clothing depicted standing against a plain white wall. This hill tribe are widely recognised in India for their traditional marriage rituals associated with dairy farming in the Niligiri hills.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"Black and white photograph","categories":[{"text":"Photographs","id":"THES48910"},{"text":"Portraits","id":"THES48906"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2006AH2844","2011FB3678","2015HP2731"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLF","id":"THES49656"},"free":"","case":"X","shelf":"311","box":"N"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"photograph","id":"AAT46300"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"India","id":"x29790"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"southern"}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"mid 19th century","earliest":"1825-01-01","latest":"1875-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Margrave Bequest","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"18.6","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"13.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"This portrait is one in a series of twenty one images  by an unidentified photographer from the Madras School of Industrial Arts. It was probably taken in response to official requests for portraits of South Asian ethnic types, but unlike much of the anthropometric imagery of the period, the photographer appears to have adopted a more sensitive approach to the sitters.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Photograph of Toda women by unknown photographer from Madras School of Industrial Arts, Southern India, 19th century.","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"woman","id":"x35642"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"Madras School of Industrial Arts\r\n‘Toda Man’, ‘Toda Woman’,\r\n‘Casserarow Woman’, ‘Guler Man’\r\n1860s\r\n\r\nThese portraits are from a series of 21 by an unknown\r\nphotographer from the Madras School of Industrial\r\nArts. The photographs were probably taken in\r\nresponse to official requests for images of South\r\nAsian ethnic groups. In contrast to many ethnographic\r\nphotographs of the period, an unusually sensitive\r\napproach to the sitters has been adopted here.\r\n\r\nAlbumen prints\r\nMuseum nos. 59.361, 59.358, 59.345, 59.347\r\n","date":{"text":"07 03 2014","earliest":"2014-03-07","latest":"2014-03-07"}}],"partNumbers":["59358"],"accessionNumberNum":"59358","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":null,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-12","recordCreationDate":"2003-06-11","availableToBook":false}}