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[Personages Of Key Figures In Maori Wars, NZ]

c1860s-1870s. Ten albumen paper photographs, carte-de-visite format, all captioned in ink on backing verso, one with studio line printed below image, 9 x 5.6cm (approx. each). Minor foxing or silvering, all laid down on original backing.

Personages show: (1) Kawana Hunia Te Hakeke; (2) Major William Magee Hunter; (3) Tomika Te Mutu, Chief of Ngai Te Rangi; (4) Tahia [sic], ex-King of Waikato [Taraia Ngakuti te Tumuhuia]; (5) Captain George Buck; (6) Black Queen Mere; (7) Victoria, Queen of the Nukumaru; (8) Ihakara Tukumaru and Walter Buller; (9) Karaana, sister of Queen Victoria; and (10) Private George Dore.

Photographers include Webster Hartley, John Nicol Crombie, Benjamin Peyman, and William Francis Gordon. Ref: National Library of New Zealand; Puke Ariki Museum, New Plymouth, NZ.

Provenance: Toogood family.

A detailed list, showing full captions, is available on request.

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Item #CL185-7

Price (AUD): $9,900.00  other currencies