





Lot 5
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
Footnotes
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.