item details
NameMaori woman wearing top hat and paper fan
ProductionBurton Brothers; copyist; circa 1880; New Zealand
American Photographic Company (Auckland); photography studio; circa 1869-1877; Auckland
American Photographic Company (Auckland); photography studio; circa 1869-1877; Auckland
Classificationcartes-de-visite, albumen prints, black-and-white prints, studio portraits
Materialsalbumen, silver, photographic paper
Materials Summaryblack and white original print
Techniquesblack-and-white photography
DimensionsImage: 57mm (width), 92mm (height)
Registration NumberO.028090
Overview
Unidentified portraits
The people who sat for these cartes-de-visite have not been identified. Some of the portraits may have been commissioned by the sitters, but it is equally likely that they were taken to satisfy European demand for examples of Māori ethnological ‘types’: such images often depict their subjects in customary clothing.