Our set of four photographs shows a group of mummies displayed according to a ritual specific to the Faténaoué region in north-west New Caledonia. They were studied and described in detail in the mid-[...]
Lucien Gauthier arrived in Tahiti in 1904, taking up a position as a photographer left vacant by the departure of Mrs. Hoare from the island.
He would devote the next seventeen years to immortalizing[...]
Beautiful silver print on matte paper, signed Lomen Bros and dated 1905 in the plate.
It presents the portrait of an Alaskan Inuit man in a fur jacket.
This portrait is one of the oldest works of th[...]
Fred W. Carlyon settled in Alaska, in the town of Wrangell, between 1898 and 1906. He ran a jewellery and watch shop there and was an amateur photographer, developing a particular interest in the nati[...]
Photograph of a woman on the north coast of the island of New Ireland, taken by Count Rodolphe Festetics de Tolna during his journey, 1893-1900.
Festetics de Tolna was on an expedition that crossed t[...]
Large silver print showing a fine example of a Yaka statue, Democratic Republic of Congo.
Our photograph, from the 1940s, comes from the archives of the Galerie "La Reine Margot", formerly held by Ma[...]
Small photographic print immortalizing three young boys of the Tchokwe ethnic group, Democratic Republic of Congo or Angola.
The scene seems to take place during an initiation rite of circumcision; t[...]
Set of eight small photographic prints showing scenes of traditional life in East African tribes in southern Kenya:
richly adorned Kikuyu men and women, a masked ritual scene, young Maasai men with o[...]
Casimir Zagourski (1883-1944). Large photographic print entitled Oubangui-Chari - Making Flour for L'Afrique qui disparaît! showing a group of women busy around a millet mortar in the centre of a vill[...]
Silver print, circa 1940, showing an astonishing set of meticulously arranged small knives.
An annotation on the back tells us about this collection "Weight to weigh gold, Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Baoul[...]
Large silver print showing a fine example of a Luba pendant in ivory, DRC.
Our photograph, from the 1940s, comes from the archives of the Galerie "La Reine Margot", formerly held by Madame Mengin, Pa[...]
Large albumen print featuring two young blonde women from the Solomon Islands in Oceania.
They pose for the photographer in their village, in front of a traditional house facade.
This photograph is [...]
Large silver print presenting a warrior from the island of Malaita photographed in studio.
He is richly adorned with traditional shell jewelry.
This print bears in a lower corner the signature (dry [...]
Portrait of "Cannibal Tom", Fiji Islands, Oceania.
Silver print from the beginning of the 20th century. Stamp on the back by Charles Chusseau-Flaviens, Paris.
Slightly curled paper, insolations i[...]
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