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-[...]
This original print is the work of Thomas Andrew, a New Zealand photographer who settled in the Samoan Islands at the end of the 19th century.
It shows a little girl sitting on a traditional tapa in [...]
Our two photographs show Tahitian couples in traditional dress, immortalized in scenes of daily life.
One of the images is dated 1896 in graphite.
This year, the printing technique, its format and i[...]
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[...]
An important set of twenty-six albumin photographs, formerly mounted on blue card.
Our collection retraces a journey to Tungusic country, on the borders of China and Eastern Siberia, in the late 19t[...]
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[...]
Portrait of a young girl with her hand placed on her mother's shoulder, South Africa.
The albumen print is mounted on a carte de visite with the label of the studio Crewes & Sons.
Charles F. Crewe[...]
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 [...]
Rare and moving albumen print showing a young woman standing in the studio. She carries her fiber hammock on her head.
A similar print, recorded in the old collections of the Ethnologisches Museum in[...]
Rare and moving albumen print featuring a group of four men in the studio.
A similar print, recorded in the old collections of the Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin, allows us to locate our photograph [...]
Large and rare albumen print showing a young woman in the studio, seated on a rock.
A similar print, recorded in the old collections of the Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin, allows us to locate our ph[...]
WOODEN STEREOSCOPE XIX th Nice stereoscope in walnut magnifying glass for stereoscopic views on glass or cardboard, size: 8.5 x 17.5 cm. Adjustment for sharpness, the eyepieces are made of metal (smal[...]
Large vintage albumen print showing three young Indonesian girls in the reconstituted Javanese Kampong in the heart of Paris for the Universal Exhibition of 1889. These three traditional dancers were [...]
Large vintage albumen print showing a group of six Indonesian women in the Javanese Kampong reconstituted in the middle of Paris for the 1889 Universal Exhibition.
In the foreground, richly dressed, [...]
Large albumen print showing a scene of daily life in a Kanak village, New Caledonia. The men are armed with their traditional spears and clubs, the women are busy with domestic chores.
This photograp[...]
Large albumen print showing a group of children posing in front of an entrance to the temple of Medinet-Habou, the largest of all Egyptian funerary temples.
This photograph is the work of Gabriel Le[...]
Albumen print named "Kafir Corn" presenting a group of children in the fields, province of Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa.
Vintage print circa 1880, by the photographer William Henry Caney, known as [...]
Rare albumen print of a Zulu woman posing seated in the studio and offering a beautiful documentation of traditional South African adornments.
Vintage print circa 1880, attributed to the photographer[...]
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[...]
Ashanti warrior from Ghana.
Albumen print mounted on cardboard. An ink stamp on the back "Jardin Zoologique d'Acclimatation. Secretariat. September 6, 1887. Paris".
Between 1877 and 1937, millions o[...]
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