Portrait, unidentified Māori woman

Maker
Poll, Wallace
Current rights
Public Domain
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Object detail

About this object
The portrait is of an unidentified Māori woman with a moko on her chin and wearing a korowai. Along her arm is tattooed the word: Heta.

Photographer, Wallace Poll, Hastings.
Date, unknown. Possibly taken in the 1890s and 1900s.
Maker
Production technique
Media/Materials description
Mounted on card, black and white photograph. It is a cabinet print.
Measurements
Cabinet print: Height x Width: 175 x 132mm
Photograph: Height x Width: 140 x 100mm
Signature/Inscription
8. Museum Artefacts Collection, Label
Caption
Collection of Hawke's Bay Museums Trust, Ruawharo Tā-ū-rangi, 8920
Other number(s)
8920, 92191

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