Lot 126
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New Zealand, Australia and Peninsular Malaysia, 1882
A photograph album
African & Oceanic Art and Antiquities | 576
Auction: 15 October 2019 at 16:00 BST
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
Description
a collection of albumen prints dating to 1882, cataloguing travel across Singapore, Australia & New Zealand, with a number of natural landscape shots and a selection containing human subjects including: a Maori man reclining in front of a wharepuni, the community posing in front of the meeting house in Ohinemutu and a range of portraits of both Maori and Australian Aboriginal men and women (twelve photos featuring human subjects in all), photograph sizes range from 8.5.x7.5 to 34.5 x 24.5cm