item details
NameHone Peeti
ProductionAmerican Photographic Company (Auckland); photography studio; circa 1869-1876; Auckland
Classificationcartes-de-visite, albumen prints, photographic prints, studio portraits
Materialssilver, albumen, printing-out paper, mounting board
Materials Summarycarte-de-visite, albumen silver print
Techniquesalbumen process, printing-out
DimensionsImage: 61mm (width), 93mm (height)
Registration NumberO.021264
Credit linePurchased 1999 with New Zealand Lottery Grants Board funds
Overview
Studio portrait of Hone Peeti, a Maori man with a well delineated, but partially complete, moko kanohi (face tattoo). The photographic studio has touched up the moko and his beard may have been trimmed to accentuate his moko.