IMAGE
Iranui (Maori woman from Hawkes Bay district)
- Date
- 1880s
- Reference
- PA2-2948
- Description
Carte de visite head and upper torso portrait of Iranui from the Hawkes Bay district, a Māori female subject with moko kauae (female chin tatoo) and headscarf, taken, probably in the 1880s, by Samuel Carnell of Napier.
The name attributed to the person in this photograph is based on the match to the person in 1/4-022198-G. The person in 1/4-022198-G had been identified by a Library staff member in 1998 as Iranui from notes on the negative.
The person in this photograph was identified in the Facial Recognition project results as an exact match to the person depicted and identified in photograph 1/4-022198-G.
The person depicted in this photograph was identified in the Facial Recognition project results as a likely match to the person depicted in photographs PA2-0134 and 1/4-022019-G.
Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Physical Description: Carte de visite, 11.3 x 7.5 cm.
Processing information: The photograph described in this record was included in a Library Facial Recognition project conducted in 2018. The project used an open source Python algorithm and verification by staff to find facial matches across a dataset of digitised carte-de-visite photographs held by the Library.
This record was previously titled "Photographer unknown: [Portrait of female Māori subject with moko kauae]". The descriptive title and name fields were updated in June and October 2019 using information generated by the project.
- Additional description
Alternative form available: This carte de visite appears to be derived from the photograph at 1/4-022198-G.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs, Albumen prints, Portraits, Cartes de visite, Carte de visite, 11.3 x 7.5 cm.
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