Los 4076

New Zealand
Maori portraits

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

Photographers: Josiah Martin (1843-1916), and others. Maori portraits. Mid-1870s. 12 albumen prints, mounted to board. Each circa 9 x 6 cm, a few larger. A few with title and number in the negative, some annotated in ink below the image on the mount.

This group comprises both individual and composite portraits of prominent Maori figures, including Chief Tawhiao, Kawiti, Mohi, Rewi, and Ringorī. Several appear in a photographic montage combining eleven portraits with ethnographic views: a carved meeting house, the settlement at Parihaka, a Rotorua village scene, a war canoe, and six carved figurative sculptures. A print of this montage is held in the British Museum collection. Also included are a larger photograph of a traditional Maori dwelling and several smaller-format studio portraits, offering a rare visual record of Maori leadership and culture in the late 19th century. – Mounts slightly time-stained in edges. Prints in good condition.