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Last Name Portman

Given Name Maurice Vidal

alt. Names M. V. P. ;

Marriage no

Children no

Year born 1860 in London, Ontario, Canada

Year died 1935

Place of death Axbridge, Somerset, UK

Father's occupation The Hon. Maurice Berkeley Portman (18xx-1xxx)

Relatives Helen Vidal Harris 18xx-1xxx) (mother) ; politician Edward Portman, 1st Viscount Portman (1799-1888) (grandfather)

Education M. V. P. joined the Royal Indian Marine at the age of 16 ;

Country of Activity India

Worked for Notes on the Languages of the South Andaman group of tribes (Calcutta 1898) ; Manual of the Andamanese languages ; History of our relations with the Andamanese (2volumes, Calcutta 1899) ; Andamanese music, with notes on oriental music and musical instruments ;

Patronage M. V. P. was Assistant Superintendent, Andaman Civil Service 1886-1897 ;

Collaborators William Molesworth, a surgeon-captain in the Indian Medical Service 1893-94 ;

Techniques anthropological and ethnological photography ;

Sample(s) http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1488640&partId=1 ;

Archival sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Vidal_Portman ;

Published sources Satadru Sen: Savage bodies, civilized pleasures. M.V.P. and the Adamanese, American Ethnologist 36,2 (2009) ; Morisson 2015: 8, note 43 ;

other M. V. P. was a British officer, from 1879 to 1901 stationed in Port Blair on the Andaman Islands, an archipelago in the Bay of Bengal between India, to the west, and Myanmar. He documented music, language, and ethnography, and later presented a large collection of Andaman artefacts to the British Museum.

Further Places of Activity: India, Great Britain, Canada, and Andaman Islands.

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