Photographs - Ethnography
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# 18849
WENDT, Frank
Australian Aborigines from North Queensland in R.A. Cunningham’s second touring company, New York, early 1894.
New York : Frank Wendt, [1894]. Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format (105 x 163 mm, mount), recto imprinted in gold lettering at left hand margin ‘Australian Boomerang Throwers. Frank Wendt, Photo. Artist, New York’; the albumen print with some very light surface rubbing, else fine; verso blank. There are very few known photographic images …
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# 18228
Photographers unknown.
West Australian Aborigines 1883
[Title from caption on mount]. Four albumen print photographs, each in carte de visite format (three are 90 x 60 mm; one 85 x 55 mm), mounted recto of a leaf of thick card removed from a nineteenth century album; inscribed in ink at centre of mount ‘West Australian Aborigines 1883’; the album owner decorated …
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# 19086
Photographer unknown.
Views of Karrakatta Bay, north-western Western Australia, taken by a Royal Navy officer from HMS Fantome between 1906 and 1910.
Two gelatin silver printing-out paper prints, each 120 x 165 mm, one inscribed in ink in contemporary hand verso ‘Karakata [sic] Bay’; both are unmounted and in good condition (the view of the bay a little over-exposed); a tiny amount of pale foxing to the versos. HMS Fantome was a Cadmus-class sloop launched in 1901. She was used as a survey …
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# 18043
Photographer unknown.
A German plantation owner’s wife with native servants and horses, Neu-Mecklenburg (New Ireland), circa 1910
Large format photographic magic lantern glass slide, 90 x 120 mm, the mount with paper label bearing contemporary manuscript caption in German ‘Matantetuk, Westküste v. Neu-Mecklenburg (Pferde)’ and the imprint of the Bavarian magic lantern firm Lichtbild-Anstalt G. Bachschmid, Kempten-Allgäu; in superb condition. This photograph, showing a scene on a copra plantation on the west …
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# 18806
PAINE, John (1833-1908)
Aboriginal men painted for corroboree, New South Wales, circa 1890
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 151 x 108 mm (mount); no photographer’s imprint; verso blank; both the albumen print and gilt-edged mount are fine condition. Taken in an unknown location in New South Wales, but attributed to Sydney-based photographer John Paine (another copy sighted with Paine’s imprint verso).
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# 18836
KING, Henry (1855-1923)
New South Wales Aborigine posing with lil-lil club and shield, Sydney, circa 1890
Albumen print photograph, 197 x 150 mm, laid down on original album page of thick card; contemporary caption in ink to mount beneath image ‘Australian Aboriginal, N.S.W.’ (reflecting the original handwritten generic caption in the negative, which was trimmed before mounting); the albumen print and mount are in very good condition; verso with a view …
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# 18975
LINDT, J.W. (John William) (1845-1926)
“Snowy and his gin”. Grafton, northern New South Wales, 1870-73.
[Pirated printing, probably 1880-90]. Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 93 x 57 mm; no photographer’s or publisher’s imprint; mounted on section cut from the original split album page, with a generic caption in period hand in ink beneath image ‘Aboriginals of Australia’; both the print and mount are in very good condition. This …
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# 18807
WIDE WORLD PHOTO (staff photographer)
Group of Aboriginal men dressed for a performance for tourists, Palm Island, North Queensland, circa 1930.
Press photograph, printing out paper, glossy print, 200 x 240 mm, verso with wet stamps of Wide World Photo and Chicago Daily Mail, original journalist’s typed description and cutting from printed newspaper version, plus editor’s annotations; in very good condition. ‘Palm Island was gazetted as an Aboriginal reserve in June 1914 and in 1918, a …
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# 18821
ILES, Arthur James (1870-1943)
Three views of the interior of a Māori carved house, Whakarewarewa, Rotorua, circa 1895
Three albumen print photographs, format 140 x 200 mm, each with handwritten caption and ‘Iles Photo’ in the negative; unmounted; one of the prints with short tear at right edge, otherwise all are in good condition.
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# 17961
[FRANZEN, Claus, 1857-1947]
[PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM] Die erste Reise S.M.S. Bismarck
An important archive of photographs taken on the first voyage of the German Imperial Navy warship SMS Bismarck, 1879-1880, documenting the ship’s visits to Patagonia, Tahiti, Rarotonga, Samoa, Fiji, Tonga, Sydney, Peru and the Falkland Islands. Provenance: From the Estate of Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898), the “Iron Chancellor”. Folio portfolio, 450 x 360 mm, contemporary full crushed …
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# 16636
DUFTY, Edward Henry (1850-1905); DUFTY, Walter Frederick (1854-1919)
Portrait of Gomenna, holding a gourd jar, New Caledonia, circa 1875
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 65 mm (mount); the albumen print is in very good condition with excellent tonal range, a couple of tiny spots of foxing; the mount is fine. Although this photograph is not inscribed, the title and attribution are derived from the inscriptions on a photograph with the …
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# 16644
DUFTY, E.H. (Edward Henry), 1850-1905 (attributed)
Photographic portrait of two young Kanak women in traditional dress, New Caledonia, late 1870s
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 65 mm (mount); the print with some light foxing, the mount fine. This photograph of two unidentified young Kanak women was almost certainly taken in the Noumea studio of E.H. Dufty between 1875 and 1880. This identification, and the dating of the photograph to the late …
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# 16642
DUFTY, E.H. (Edward Henry), 1850-1905 (attributed)
Photographic portrait of two Kanak men holding spears and clubs, New Caledonia, late 1870s
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 65 mm (mount); the albumen print in very good condition, with slight loss of contrast; else in fine condition with good tonal range. This photograph of two unidentified young Kanak men was almost certainly taken in the Noumea studio of E.H. Dufty between 1875 and 1880. …
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# 16640
DUFTY, E.H. (Edward Henry), 1850-1905 (attributed)
Photographic portrait of two Kanak men, New Caledonia, late 1870s
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 65 mm (mount); the albumen print is in very good condition with excellent tonal range, a few faint spots of foxing; the mount is fine. This photograph of two unidentified young Kanak men was almost certainly taken in the Noumea studio of E.H. Dufty between 1875 and …
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# 13717
LINDT, J.W. 1845-1926 (attributed)
Flute players, Ambrym, New Hebrides, circa 1890
Silver albumen print, cabinet card format, 105 x 165 mm, inscribed in the negative “No. 59 Ambrym, New Hebrides”; recto of mount embossed in gilt “Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year”; verso blank; the albumen print is in fine condition with excellent tonal range. A rare image capturing a performance by …
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# 18484
TITAYNA [pseud. of Elisabeth DESMARETS-SAUVY].; A.P. ANTOINE; R. LUGEON
Chez les mangeurs d’hommes (Nouvelles Hébrides)
Paris : Duchatre, 1931. Quarto, original pictorial stiff wrappers (spine sunned), early owner’s inscription to front endpaper, pp 57, [3], followed by 80 photographic plates, including numerous full-page plates of masks (some coloured); a very good copy. A comprehensive survey of the traditional culture and ritual of the New Hebrides (Vanuatu).