Los 4006

Amazonia
Indigenous life in the Peruvian Amazon

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 29.11.2025

Photographer: Charles Kroehle (1867-1902). Indigenous life in the Peruvian Amazon. 1890s. 7 albumen prints. Each ca. 15 x 22 cm. Some signed “Ch. Kroehle” in the negative in lower margin.

This group of photographs by Charles Kroehle documents daily life and ceremonial practices among Indigenous communities of the Peruvian Amazon, likely the Shipibo or related Panoan-speaking peoples. Included are multi-generational group portraits taken in forest clearings, family scenes before palm-thatched dwellings, and canoeing on the river. Other images depict hunters with spears, women with infants, a crocodile hunting scene showing Indigenous people with Charles Kroehle and Georg Huebner, as well as portraits of men with bow and arrows. Kroehle’s lens combines ethnographic observation with staged composition, offering insight into the colonial encounter and anthropological interests of the late 19th century. – Some fading, especially around the edges, light handling creases and minor surface irregularities, otherwise all in good to very good condition. With: 1 albumen print showing Andean highland people.