• Title
  [Maori and Pacific Islander portraits, ca. 1879-1900] / album owned by David Scott Mitchell
• Call number
  PXB 1315
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1879-1900
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  442407
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 album (30 carte de visite photoprints) - 13.7 x 10 x 6 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  Album comprising a dark green velvet cover predominantly exposed on the spine, gilt edged pages, front and back cover with light brown bakelite panels bearing oak leaf pattern in relief, and gilt clasp at sides for closing mechanism.
  
  1-22. Portraits of unidentified Maori men, women, and children. Most are dressed in traditional clothes, that include feather cloaks, hei-tiki (neck pendant), ear and hair ornaments. One male is holding a taiaha (fighting staff) / photographed by T.E. Price
  23. [Group outside of meeting house (wharenui)] / T.E. Price
  24-26. [Pacific Islander women] / J. Davis
  27. [Streetscape lined with trees and houses] "Robertson" / G. Spitz, Papeete Tahiti
  28. [View of the International Hotel] / J. Davis
  29. Samoa 82 [i.e. 1882] Feb.y. / J. Davis
  30. [Tropical landscape with male on path] / J. Davis
• General note
  
  Nos. 1-22. consist mainly of individual portraits, with some couples represented (being women with children and two women together).
  Nos. 11 and 17. The sitters are dressed in European clothes.
  No. 23 has an inscription on the reverse that is difficult to decipher, that possibly reads "Varanau owned by Mah..."
  No. 30 has a piece missing from the surface of the photograph.
  According to information from the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington, New Zealand, Thomas E. Price operated a photographic studio in Masterton from 1879-1900. John Davis was a photographer who worked in Apia, Samoa from the 1880's until his death in 1893. Photographs are dated from this period.
  Some photographs bear pin holes, indicating they were previously stored or displayed in another location from the album.
  The album is unable to be closed as the volume has expanded.
  "D.S.M" initials on front endpaper.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1248703
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  "Thos. E. Price, Masterton, N.Z." photographer's stamp on reverse of images.
  "J. Davis / Photo" in lower corner on the front of some photographs.
  A few photographs bear handwritten inscriptions on the reverse.
  One photograph is dated.
  Handwritten in black in on the underside of clasp, "241.5"
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Davis, John, d. 1893
  Price, Thomas E, active 1875-1900
  Spitz, Charles Georges
  
• Subject
  Carte de visite photographs.
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  Photograph albums.
  Portrait photography.
  
• Topic
  cloaks
  fans
  headdresses
  Maori customs
  Maoris
  meeting houses
  necklaces
  
• Place
  New Zealand
  Samoa
  Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island).
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3318056

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