IMAGE
American Photo Company (Auckland) fl 1870s : Paul Bates, Bay of Islands
- Date
- [ca 1870s]
- By
- American Photographic Company (Auckland, N.Z.)
- Reference
- PA2-0103
- Description
Carte de visite print of Paul Bates taken circa 1870s by American Photographic Company of Auckland. Shows a head and shoulders portrait of a Maori man with a facial moko wearing a cloth cloak. He wears jewellery around his neck: a glass fronted locket with a portrait visible, and a pendant [probably pounamu].
Source of descriptive information - Identification made in 2013 by staff member from Royal Albert Memorial Museum which holds a similar portrait of the same man with the inscription "Paul Bates Bay of Islands".
The person depicted in this photograph was identified in the Facial Recognition project results as a likely match to the person depicted in photograph PA2-0117.
Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
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.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Ramsden, Eric :Photographs relating to Ramsden and his family and Maori subjects
- Format
- 1 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs, Albumen prints, Cartes de visite, Portraits
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American Photographic Company (Auckland, N.Z.). American Photo Company (Auckland) fl 1870s : Paul Bates, Bay of Islands. Ramsden, Eric :Photographs relating to Ramsden and his family and Maori subjects. Ref: PA2-0103. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22808716More information can be found in our terms of use.