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MARSHALL ISLANDS
Album containing 72 photographs, late 1880s

3 December 2014, 14:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£2,500 - £3,500

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MARSHALL ISLANDS

Album containing 72 photographs, albumen prints (images 105 x 140mm.), contemporary decorative cloth gilt by Götze of Erfurt, rebacked, rubbed, oblong 8vo, late 1880s

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Rare images of the Marshall Islands in the North Pacific, which were acquired by Germany from Spain in 1884. The album was apparently assembled by a German missionary. Images include: several recently-constructed huts and cabins (one in Jaluit with sign of the Imperial German Commissar, another with the sign "Germania"); European settlers; Islanders in western clothes - presumably converts; Islanders in traditional surroundings and attire, playing music and ostensibly dancing. Around half of the images are ethnographic.

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