IMAGE
Artist unknown :Ein Madchen der Maori. Ein Madchen von Samoa. Neuseeland. Samoa. [ca 1890]
- Date
- 1885 - 1895
- Reference
- A-443-005
- Description
A frontal head and shoulders portrait of a young Maori woman, and a young Samoan woman. The Maori woman has moko and is wearing a fringed cloak. The Samoan woman is dressed in European clothing and wears a decorative neck band.
The Samoan woman appears to be wearing a "Mother Hubbard" dress, a style introduced by missionaries, with the dress gathered onto a broad yoke.
Source: Page 229 of an unidentified German publication, from a section headed "Neuseeland. Samoa". On the verso, page 230, a section headed "Melanesien: Neuguinea" is a hand-coloured wood engraving of "Thursday Island in der Torres Strasse (nach Photographie von R. Semon)". Shows a view across a bay, with a steam ship, a jetty, several buildings and palm trees in the foreground. Signed bottom right O. Schutz [?].
Other Titles - A Maori girl. A Samoan girl. New Zealand. [translation]
Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s).
Physical Description: Wood engraving, 122 x 170 mm
Provenance: Purchased from Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, July 2011.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 b&w art print(s), Works of art, Wood engravings, Portraits, Wood engraving, 122 x 170 mm, Orientation: Horizontal image
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