PHOTOGRAPHY - AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND AND PACIFIC


A collection of approximately 52 views, native groups and portraits (including carte-de-visites), some mounted on card, some captioned in ink or pencil on verso, various sizes, [mostly late nineteenth century] (quantity)
|Fiji images include "a Fijian house. Photo by Rev. George Brown, Methodist Missionary"; "an old Fijian chief on the upper Rewa"; groups of Fijians near Suva, by Burton & Co. of Dunedin (2); carte-de-visite of a seated warrior by W. Duft, of Noumea; carte-de-visite portraits of Ratu Cakobau by F. & A. Dufty, Lekuva (2), and a group of portraits of his family and circle; "native police at drill". Australian images include a good image of an unidentified Aborigine in a suit holding a boomerang; "mustering for a hunt", "Aboriginals, N.S.W." (2 on a card); "King Jimmy" by Kerry & Jones, Sydney; "Natives of Lake Tyers", unidentified female Aborigine with her son. Others include cabinet portraits of King Kalakaua, and Queen Kapiolani of Hawaii by J. Williams & Co., of Honolulu; Maori woman by C.P. Cottier (2).