item details
NameMr Still and Faaolatana
ProductionBurton Brothers; photography studio; 1884; Dunedin
Alfred Burton; photographer; 1884; Pago Pago
Alfred Burton; photographer; 1884; Pago Pago
Classificationphotographic prints, albumen prints, black-and-white prints
Materialssilver, albumen, photographic paper
Materials Summaryblack and white photograph, albumen print
Techniquesblack-and-white photography
Dimensions198, 145
Registration NumberO.002032
Credit linePurchased 1981 with New Zealand Lottery Board funds
Overview
Outdoor portrait of a Samoan woman (Faaolatana) and a European man (Mr W T Still) posed sitting on a woven matt. Still has his arm around Faaolatana. Mr Still was from England and a passenger on the second cruise with Alfred Burton. Burton described Still as 'a popular globe-trotter' and Faaolatana as Still's 'flend' and 'a young lady of the highest social standing in the neighbourhood'. In the Burton Brothers negative register, this image is marked 'private neg'.