'Queen Emma', Thames

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Title

'Queen Emma', Thames

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

Half length portrait of a young Maori woman with her face in three quarter profile. The woman has been identified as 'Queen Emma, Thames' on the back of a carte-de-visite in our collection. She has a moko kauae (chin tattoo), and is wearing an ornate Victorian dress in a dark colour, and a bonnet trimmed with lace and flowers. She is also wearing large earrings, a necklace of large diamond-shaped beads (possibly jet), and a choker.

Format

Image

Date created

1860s

Creator

Robert Leaf / American Photographic Company (Auckland)

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/31188

Related subjects

People / Tattoos / Women / Jewellery / Indigenous peoples / Irihāpeti Hahau / Māori / collodion / silver / photographic plates / sheet glass / wet collodion negatives / black-and-white negatives / studio portraits / black-and-white photography / Auckland / New Zealand

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