Three Maori women

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Title

Three Maori women

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

These portraits may look ordinary today, but their informal style was unusual in the early 1900s. They document unknown Māori women and children at a time when images of Māori tended to be of single, romanticised figures and important leaders. The photographs are attributed to the Director of the Colonial Museum (Te Papa’s first forerunner), Augustus Hamilton. They contrast with the mostly traditional, fine-art portraits elsewhere in this gallery, giving us a small insight into everyday Māori...

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Format

Image

Date created

1903-1913

Creator

Augustus Hamilton

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/826418

Related subjects

Women / Indigenous peoples / people / Arms & armament / Māori / silver / photographic gelatin / printing-out paper / mounting board / photographic prints / gelatin silver prints / group portraits / black-and-white photography / New Zealand

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