[INDIA — TRAVEL AND SPORTING PHOTOGRAPHY] — M. MUTTANNAH [PHOTOGRAPHER] | Kheddah Operations as Witnessed by Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princes of Wales in the Kakankota Forest of Mysor. Bangalore: Messrs. Barton, Son & Co., 1906

Property from the Sporting and Travel Library of Arnold "Jake" Johnson

[INDIA — TRAVEL AND SPORTING PHOTOGRAPHY] — M. MUTTANNAH [PHOTOGRAPHER]

Kheddah Operations as Witnessed by Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princes of Wales in the Kakankota Forest of Mysor. Bangalore: Messrs. Barton, Son & Co., 1906

Oblong folio (15 1/8 x 11 3/4 in.; 385 x 298 mm). Title printed in black and red, 31 sepia photogravures from photos by Barton, Son & Co., Bangalore, captioned tissue guards; some toning and marginal fingersoiling, Kensington Library stamp throughout (primarily to the verso of mounts). Full green cloth covered boards, upper cover lettered and pictorially stamped in gilt, patterned endpapers; overall rubbed with some fraying, some staining and soiling, upper joint weak.

Once every five years, the maharajah of Mysore would round up wild elephants from his jungles, so that they might be tamed and used for ceremonies or logging work. This operation—which involved thousands of hunters, and took several months and several hundred tame elephants—culminated when the wild elephants were driven into a wooden stockade, called kheddah. 

PROVENANCE:

Royal Borough of Kensington Public Library (bookplate to front pastedown and rubber library stamp throughout)