Overview
This acquisition consists of the same prints that were used for the reproductions in the 1972 Michael King book Moko: Maori tattooing in the 20th century. Marti Friedlander took photographs of kuia who had received moko around the early years of the 20th century for this book. Images of such women are relatively rare, especially as a body of work, and of course, can never be taken again. They represent a precious record of an era long past.