JEWELLERY, ANTIQUE AND ART AUCTION Tuesday, 30 April 2019 - 9:30 AM start
Two 19thC Maori portrait albumen photographs
Realised: $180 plus premium
Lot Details
- a studio photograph of Patara Te Ngungukai wearing a rapaki as a cape and a European blanket as a cloak holding a hatchet. A counterpart photograph in the same attire is used as illustration in Tregear's 'The Maori Race' facing pg.504; the other portrait a Maori woman, photographer unknown. Each 190 x 130mm.
