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Unknown Samoan woman

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Title / object name  Unknown Samoan woman
Maker  Role  Date  
Andrew, Thomas  photographer  circa 1896  
Medium Summary  black and white photograph, platinum print
Materials  platinum, paper
Dimensions
Support  162 (Height) x 215 (Length) mm
Classification  platinum prints, black-and-white prints, studio portraits
Technique  black-and-white photography, platinum process
Registration Number  O.001309/01
Credit Line
Gift of Alison Beckett and Robert McPherson, 1996

Young woman reclining on tapa cloth in front of a fern backdrop. She is wearing a selu tuiga, two strands of beads, a bodice and an 'ie fuipani (black shaggy skirt). She is leaning on her right elbow and holding a kava cup in her left hand.

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