Photograph (Albumen Print, Carte de Visite) of a Maori Chief of the Hauraki Region, 1875 | |||||||||||
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| Inventory Number: | 12107 | ||||||||||
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| Accession Number: | 1949-10 | ||||||||||
| Brief Description: | Carte de visite (albumen print mounted on card) of a native (Maori) chief of the Hauraki region, seated half length, turned slightly to right but looking front, in western clothing and with a walking cane in his right hand. The identifying inscriptions were written by the original owner K. Johnson, who gave the photograph to Jabez Inwards as a Christmas present in 1875. The subject is a portly black man of very dignified appearance. Hauraki is a coastal and island region around Hauraki Gulf in New Zealand's North Island, near Auckland, its native inhabitants being chiefly the tribes of the Marutuahu confederation. | ||||||||||
| Primary Inscriptions: | Inscribed on front of mount: 'A Native Chief - Member | of the Legislative Assembly'.
Inscribed on back: 'Hauraki | a Native Chief' and '24/12/75 | J. Inwards Esq | London | with K Johnson's | Kind regards'. | ||||||||||
| Provenance: | Presented by the Executors of G. H. Gabb in 1949. From the collection of Richard Inwards. Given to his father Jabez Inwards by K. Johnson in 1875. | ||||||||||
| Collection Group: | Gabb Collection | ||||||||||
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Paper Card | ||||||||||
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