IMAGE
Thomas Ritchie wearing korowai
- Date
- [187-?]
- Reference
- 120-0026-7-2
- Description
Thomas Ritchie (1844?-1934), farmer, runholder, trader and shipping agent of Chatham Islands, photographed ca 1870s by an unknown photographer. He is wearing a korowai (Maori tag cloak) and is holding a patu. A moko has been applied to his face with paint, and he has two feathers (possibly painted on to the original print) in his hair.
Information used to date and describe image taken from inscription from print housed at PAColl-3957-1.
Arrangement: Image forms right side of frame 7 on negative strip
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) individual image on 120 strip.
Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate copy negative
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Rockel, Ian Robert, 1939- :Photographs of Chatham Islands / Chatham Island portraits
- Format
- 1 b&w original negative(s) individual image on 120 strip, Negatives, Portraits, Cellulose triacetate copy negative
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