An account of the primitive tribes and monuments of the Nīlagiris
By: by the late James Wilkinson Breeks, of the Madras civil service, commissioner of the Nīlagiris; ed. by his widow
Publisher: India Museum, W. H. Allen
Published: 1873
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 137
Subjects: Indigenous peoples; Ethnology; Photography in ethnology; Antiquities
Notes: Illustrations are original photographs (80 albumen prints), one map, and two drawings.

Photographs measure 21 x 27 cm. or smaller and include printed captions. They were taken by an unidentified photographer "from the School of Arts at Madras" in 1871 and portray men and women from the Irula, Badaga, Toda, Kota, and Kurumba tribes in the Nilgiri Hills of southern India. Other images show villages, dwellings, temples, cairns, cromlechs, barrows, artifacts, and rock inscriptions.

Includes bibliographical references.

James Wilkinson Breeks served as first Commissioner of the Nīlgiri District from 1868-1872.