Photographs - Ethnography

# 14236

Photographer unknown.

Photographic portraits of Germans and natives, Neu-Mecklenburg, Bismarck Archipelago, circa 1910

Two large format photographic magic lantern glass slides, each 90 x 120 mm, the mounts with paper labels bearing the same contemporary manuscript caption in German Neu-Mecklenburg (the German name for New Ireland) and the imprint of the Bavarian magic lantern firm Lichtbild-Anstalt G. Bachschmid, Kempten-Allgäu; both slides are in superb condition. These intimate portrait …

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# 13724

Photographer unknown.

Photographic portrait of King Tidy, Brisbane, circa 1868

[Title from engraved breastplate worn by the subject]. Albumen print, carte de visite format, 90 x 60 mm, on mount 104 x 65 mm; numeral “9” inscribed in ink in contemporary hand at lower margin recto of mount; verso blank; the albumen print in fine condition with rich tonal range. We can locate only two …

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# 13729

COURRET HERMANOS, CALLAO; [DUESBURY, Samuel, attributed]

Group of Aboriginal women and breastfeeding infant, Brisbane, circa 1868

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 90 x 56 mm, mount 103 x 67 mm; recto with red printed border, lower margin with imprint of Courret Hermanos, 36 Calle de la Constitucion, Callao in red, and a contemporary inscription in ink Indians – Eastern Peru and a faint pencilled inscription in the same hand Indios de …

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# 13855

MARQUIS, Daniel

Two studio photographs of Aborigines, Brisbane, late 1860s

Albumen print photographs, carte de visite format, each 101 x 64 mm, versos with imprint of Marquis, Photographer, George Street, Brisbane; both of the albumen prints are in very good condition, the mounts with some pale foxing. Marquis opened his studio at 82 George Street in 1866. These elaborately composed portraits – a tableau of an …

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# 13061

Photographer unknown.

Wedding portrait of an Aboriginal couple, Koonibba Mission, west coast South Australia, circa 1925

Private [i.e. non-commercial] photograph on Velox paper, 101 x 75 mm; verso with paper adhesions from an old album page, but with the violet wet stamp “Velox” still visible; in fine condition. The plaque on the stone building behind the unidentified couple is the foundation stone of the Lutheran Children’s Home, Koonibba, which was opened …

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# 12239

BURTON BROS.

Muster of “labour”, Mango, Fiji.

Albumen print photograph,145 x 195 mm, numbered and captioned in negative 2601. Muster of “labour” – Mango – Fiji, laid down on original board mount with photographer’s imprint of Burton, Dunedin at lower right and printed title The Camera in the Coral Islands at lower left; foxing around the edges of the mount (not affecting …

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# 11990

BURTON BROS.

Native village – near Suva, Fiji.

Albumen print photograph,150 x 210 mm, numbered and captioned in negative 2522. Native village – near Suva, Fiji, laid down on original board mount with photographer's imprint of Burton, Dunedin at lower right and printed title The Camera in the Coral Islands at lower left, mild foxingaround the edges of mount (not affecting image), otherwise …

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# 11430

STAR PHOTO CO.

Aboriginal, N.S.W.

[Sydney] : Star Photo. Co., [circa 1904]. Photogravure process postcard, 136 x 89 mm, contemporary annotation to front ‘Sydney 4/12/04’, postally used and postmarked December 5 1904; in fine condition. The images published by the Star Photo. Co. in its series of postcards of Aboriginal subjects are the epitome of Australian racist kitsch of the …

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# 10337

Photographer unknown.

Group of men, Waria River, southeast New Guinea, circa 1920

Gelatin silver print photograph, 80 x 115 mm, verso with contemporary pencilled inscription in German 'N.G. 8 Leute von Waria'; fine. The source of the Waria River, which flows through Oro and Morobe provinces, was discovered in 1910 by the Australian anthropologist Ernest Chinnery. This group portrait of 24 men – most likely Zia speakers …

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# 4167

MARQUIS, Daniel

Two studio photographs of Aborigines, Brisbane, late 1860s

Albumen print photographs, carte de visite format, each 101 x 64 mm, versos with imprint of D. Marquis, Photographer, George Street, Brisbane, one of the prints slightly pale otherwise both in very good condition, the mounts with some mild toning to the edges and lightly marked verso (one with contemporary pencil annotations). Marquis opened his …

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# 8111

Photographer unknown.

[NEW CALEDONIA] Kanak woman holding her child

Circa 1911. Photographic glass magic lantern slde with hand colouring, 82 x 102 mm, the mount with a contemporary manuscript label '916/11'; a short crack to the lower corner of one of the sheets of covering glass, not affecting the image; otherwise in fine condition.

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# 7159

SWEET, Samuel White (1825-1886)

Aboriginal camp, Point McLeay, South Australia, 1880

Albumen print photograph, 170 x 210 mm, mounted on a contemporary album page of thick card, inscribed in negative at lower left Sweet Adelaide 455, a very strong print in excellent condition with rich tonal range, small section of loss to surface of the paper at right edge. The National Library of Australia's copy of …

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# 5105

PERRY, H. R. (1846-1936)

Aboriginal woman in European dress. Far North of South Australia, circa 1875.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 61 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘H. R. Perry, Photographer‘; a good print, the upper right edge a little roughened, the mount free of foxing. In 1875-76 the travelling photographer Harry Perry made a circular trip through the interior of South Australia from Port Pirie, …

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# 4126

[FRAZIER]

Zulu warriors and European gold miners, Klerksdorp, Transvaal, circa 1895.

Two gelatin silver photographs mounted recto and verso of a cabinet card, 165 x 108 mm, recto with animated scene of a Zulu warrior dancing in front of the camera with several other dancers in the background, image 150 x 103 mm, inscribed in contemporary hand in ink across lower margin: Frazier / Klerksdorp. S.A.R. …

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# 1956

[NEW GUINEA] Portraits of native people of the Markham Valley region, German New Guinea, c 1914

A group of seven original photographs dating from around 1914, each 115 x 70 mm, five numbered verso in ink in contemporary hand, two with pencil inscriptions in German in contemporary hand: Häuptling von Lae [Chief of Lae] and Eing’ren. Schönheit von Lae [Native beauty of Lae]. Fine condition. These close-up and very candid portraits …

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# 1758

Photographer unknown

[TAHITI] A young Tahitian woman with her European husband, c 1870

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format (100 x 62 mm), no photographer's imprint. Top right corner missing, surface soiling, but the image – in particular the facial features of the sitters – has retained its clarity and detail. The woman is dressed in the attire typically worn by members of the Tahitian female aristocracy …

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