IMAGE
Webster album 3
- Date
- [1880s-1900s?]
- By
- Iles, James, active 1878; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)
- Reference
- PA1-o-518
- Description
Includes photographs of Maori artefacts in museum context.
Possibly created by James Edge-Partington, an anthropologist who studied artefacts in New Zealand and the Pacific. This volume is in the same style of album, with similar photographs and articles as Webster album 4 (PA1-o-519) which has Edge-Partington's named bookplate inside the front cover.
Studies of a variety of artefacts including an instrument giving a decoy call for kiwi; a sea leopard's tooth carved and worn as a pendant (from Stewart Island); whale teeth pendants; weapons; tools; carved waka, prows of waka; carved meeting houses; Te Kooti's house "Te Waho"; carved storehouses; a Maori kite; eel traps and fish hooks.
The artefacts are from various collections in New Zealand and overseas, including the Chapman Collection, the Hamilton Collection, the Hocken Collection and General Robley's Collection.
Cuttings from articles written by James Edge-Partington from anthropological journals are inserted in the album
Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Physical Description: Abum with dark grey cover; 26 x 21 cm
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Part of
- Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection
- Format
- 1 album(s) Album(s), Photographs, Abum with dark grey cover; 26 x 21 cm
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Copyright
UnknownMaori artefacts including decoy call for kiwi
Date: [1920s]
From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection
Reference: PA1-o-518-01-1
Description: Five numbered Maori artefacts. Number one is a decoy call for kiwi made of steatite (soapstone) with decorative carving. Photograph taken ca 1920s by unidentified photographer. Source of descriptive information - date estimated by cataloguer Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - No. 1 decoy call for kiwi of steatite Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic print 14.6 x 10.2 cm, mounted on album page