'Squatting male figure with arms outstretched [Hentakoi]' Nicobar Island [donated by Katherine S Tuson, 1923, WA509307]

Temple, Man & Tuson: Collecting the Andaman & Nicobar Islands is the title of a small display of objects and images presented in the World Art Gallery at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery between April 2006 - September 2007. The research and documentation work which supported the display and these web pages was funded by the MLA Designation Challenge Fund and the James Green Centre for World Art. The project has stimulated further research, including a planned doctoral thesis. For further information contact Claire Wintle, AHRC World Art Researcher (c.wintle@sussex.ac.uk).

Further reading:

Edwards, E. 'Science Visualized: E.H. Man in the Andaman Islands', E. Edwards (ed.), Anthropology and Photography 1860-1920, London: RAI, 1992

Man, E.H. 'On the Andamanese and Nicobarese objects presented to Major-General Pitt Rivers', Journal of the Anthropological Institute, 9: 268-94, 1882

Man, E.H. On the Aboriginal Inhabitants of the Andaman Islands, repr. of 1885 repr. London: RAI

Mears, H. 'Sites of Discipline, Sights of Power, E.H. Man's photographs of the Andaman Islands, 1869-1901', The Royal Pavilion, Libraries & Museums Review, December 2004

Prain, D. 'Memoir of E.H. Man' in E.H. Man, The Nicobar Islands and their People, Guildford: RAI, 1932

Singh, S.J. The Nicobar Islands: Cultural Choices in the Aftermath of the Tsunami, Vienna: Czernin Verlag, 2005

Tomas, D. 'Tools of the Trade: The Production of Ethnographic Observations on the Andaman Islands, 1858-1922', G.W. Stocking (ed.) Colonial Situations, Essays on the Contextualization of Ethnographic Knowledge, University of Wisconsin Press, 1991