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Head of a Maori

Horatio Gordon Robley (Funchal 1840 - London 1930)


Head of a Maori

Lot-No. 639

Proceeds : 1.900 €


Pen and ink drawing, 22,5 x 17,5 cm, lo. ri. dat. 1899, on the reverse letter by Robley to Prof. Dieck, unframed. - Provenance: From the estate of the Berlin dentist Prof. Wilhelm Dieck who was also member of the 'Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte'. - English soldier and explorer. Like his father, R. pursued a military career. He first served in Burma from 1858 and was already interested in local culture and society there; his talent for drawing was very useful to him. In 1863 he was sent to New Zealand and began documenting Maori culture, among it tattoos. He also had a collection of preserved Maori heads. In 1847 he quit the army and published the knowledge he had acquired in and about New Zealand.

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Horatio Gordon Robley: Head of a Maori


Horatio Gordon Robley (Funchal 1840 - London 1930)

Head of a Maori

Lot-No. 639

Proceeds : 1.900 €

Print

Pen and ink drawing, 22,5 x 17,5 cm, lo. ri. dat. 1899, on the reverse letter by Robley to Prof. Dieck, unframed. - Provenance: From the estate of the Berlin dentist Prof. Wilhelm Dieck who was also member of the 'Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte'. - English soldier and explorer. Like his father, R. pursued a military career. He first served in Burma from 1858 and was already interested in local culture and society there; his talent for drawing was very useful to him. In 1863 he was sent to New Zealand and began documenting Maori culture, among it tattoos. He also had a collection of preserved Maori heads. In 1847 he quit the army and published the knowledge he had acquired in and about New Zealand.

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