photographic print(black and white);
album
- Museum number
- Oc,A18.25
- Description
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Photograph (black and white); from an album; scene from a village, Taumaranui, with one Maori woman standing in the foreground, surrounded by seven children; another woman sits in the background with a baby on her lap; in the centre of the image is an undecorated pataka (food storehouse); hills and river in background; Wanganui, New Zealand.
Albumen print
- Production date
- 1885
- Dimensions
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Height: 14.60 centimetres (image)
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Height: 25.80 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 19.90 centimetres (image)
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Width: 35.40 centimetres (mount)
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- Curator's comments
- This photograph is from an album of 43 images by various photographers in New Zealand, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil and Arkansas, USA. The album was collected by W.C. Mamby between 1889-91, and appears to be collected during travels as the sequence of photographs would suggest.
Date: This image is by Alfred Burton, from his well known trip in April and May of 1885 to the Wanganui River. There is a related image in the Te Papa Museum collection.
Related image: Graham-Stewart, Michael, and Gow, John; "Out of Time: Maori & the photographer 1860 - 1940, the Ngawini Cooper Trust Collection"; John Leech Gallery; p.54
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Album mount has acid burn, warping and foxing; some foxing on image. Creas in the upper left corner
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,A18.25
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 3569 (photographic series number)
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Miscellaneous number: MM 006890 (Museum of Mankind number)
