Photographs - Ethnography

# 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 …

# 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. …

# 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).

# 18302

Anon.

[BLACK AMERICANA] An early genre stereoview with a scene of interracial courtship.

[U.S.A.] : s.n., between 1860 and 1865. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph with hand colouring, each image 76 x 73 mm (irregular), on original yellow card mount, 85 x 175 mm, verso blank; both albumen prints are in good condition; the mount has some bruising at top left corner and mild handling wear. An intriguing early …

# 17914

J. WILLIAMS & CO.

[HAWAII] Photographic portrait of King Kalakaua

Circa 1875. Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, mount 165 x 110 mm, verso imprinted ‘J. Williams & Co., (Successors to M. Dickson), Photographers, 102 Fort Street, Honolulu, H.I.’, and with contemporary inscriptions in both ink and pencil: ‘King Kalakaua’; the albumen print with a couple of light marks bottom right, otherwise in very good …

# 17898

GRAHAM-STEWART, Michael; McWHANNELL, Francis; DICKSON, Jonathan

Bitter fruit : Australian photographs to 1963

Melbourne : Michael Graham-Stewart, 2017. Quarto (285 x 230 mm), cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket, 280 pp, illustrated in colour throughout with hundreds of photographs documenting the collision of Indigenous Australian and European cultures; the photographs, ranging in date from the 1850s to the 1960s and taken in every region of Australia, represent some …

# 18483

New Caledonia illustrated

Nouméa : Imprimeries Réunies, 1942. Octavo, pictorial wrappers (sunned), staple bound, 32 pp, chiefly b/w photographic illustrations of  Canaque people, Nouméa, landscapes, etc.; with double page map at centre; a good copy. Text in English. Unrecorded in Australian collections.

# 16917

TAPLIN, George, Rev. (1831-1879)

The Narrinyeri : An account of the tribes of South Australian Aborigines inhabiting the Country around the Lakes Alexandrina, Albert, and Coorong, and the Lower Part of the River Murray: their Manners and Customs, also an Account of the Mission at Port Macleay. 

Adelaide : J.T. Shawyer, Printer, 1874. Octavo, original flushcut limp cloth (somewhat sunned) with printed title label to front (loss to top left corner of label), front pastedown with bookplate of John Calaby, frontispiece tipped-in albumen print photograph with montage of head-and-shoulder portraits of identified Narrinyeri (Ngarrindjeri) men and women by Townsend Duryea, pp. iv, [ii], …