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• Auction House:
  Cordy's
• Sale Name:
  September 2017 Art & Antique Auction
• Sale Date:
  19 Sep 2017 ~ 9.30am (NZ time) - Session 1 - Lots 1 - 473
  19 Sep 2017 ~ 5pm (NZ time) Session 2 - Lots 480 - 766
• Lot #:
  174
• Lot Description:
  A good N.Z. colonial Maori subject photo album
  with many images by Josiah Martin, mainly larger vintage black and white photographs within a vintage album, each inscribed by hand in black ink beneath the image including 'Tangi-Over the Dead, Rotoiti', 'Deserted by all his Like - Left Alone to Die', 'Mohi-Heroic Chief', 'Maori Village - Maketu Pah', 'Rangitatoa. Tohunga - Performing Incantations - Opening of Carved House', 'Mat Weaving', 'Interior of Carved House - Whakarewarewa' etc.; also including photographic prints of engravings and paintings etc. The larger images 147 x 203. The interior front cover printed with original owner's name S.F. Carter, Parnell, 1905'. Album size 252 x 295. Note: Josiah Martin (b.London 1843-1916) came to N.Z. and established the forerunner of a College of Education in Auckland in the 1870s. For health reasons he gave this up and turned to photography in partnership with William Partington who was responsible for a number of Maori portraits taken in the 1880s. Martin is recorded as one of the most
• Estimate:
  NZ$1,800 - 1,800
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Memorabilia

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