NEW ZEALAND PHOTOGRAPHERS including FOY BROS. (Thames), CLARKE BROS. (Auckland), MR. HOBY (Tarnaki) and THORNHILL COOPER (Christchurch)

Maori portrait and costume studies, 1870s

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NEW ZEALAND PHOTOGRAPHERS including FOY BROS. (Thames), CLARKE BROS. (Auckland), MR. HOBY (Tarnaki) and THORNHILL COOPER (Christchurch)
Maori portrait and costume studies, 1870s
Album containing fifty-nine cartes-de-visite, several identified in ink and the majority with photographer's printed credit on mounts or on verso, loosely inserted in fifty-nine (of 100) pre-cut window mounts with gilt borders, the majority identified and several with photographer's credit in pencil in a later hand on mounts, embossed brown morocco, gilt-metal edges, gilt clasps, g.e., oblong 8vo.

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Portraits of the Maori people wearing traditional furs and feathers including sitters identified as Tawakio, Hirini Pakia the Maori Prince, William Thompson and his wife, Ameria Waikato, Chief Hauraki, a Shames Chief, a Waikato Chief and a few portraits of men with traditional decorated faces and stretched earlobes.

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