拍品 104
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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

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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.

拍品专文

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.