Maori boy

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Title

Maori boy

Content partner

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

Studio portrait of a young Maori boy with a bolt of cloth tied diagonally across his body (in bandalier fashion). He holds a spear, possibly Polynesian or Mealnesian in origin rather than Maori, and wears two long tail feathers from the Koekoea or Long-tailed Cuckoo, in his hair.

Format

Image

Date created

circa 1880s

Creator

Burton Brothers / American Photographic Company (Auckland)

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/194787

Related subjects

Boys / Feathers / Spears / People / Indigenous peoples / Māori / albumen / silver / photographic paper / mounting board / cartes-de-visite / gelatin silver prints / photographic prints / black-and-white prints / portraits / albumen prints / black-and-white photography / New Zealand

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