Auguste Figon studio (Hammerfest, Norway)
1875-1880 (ca)
Studio portrait of five Saami boys, standing and sitting, wearing distinctive hats, identified in a handwritten note on the reverse as living on the coast between Kvalsund and Kvaloin Finmark, Norway.

Carte de visite
Pitt Rivers Museum
Joan Evans - Donated August 1941, 1941.8.51
 
Research Notes
This carte de visite has been identified as a photograph by Auguste Figon, taken from the printed information below the image. Figon's studio is described as being located in Hammerfest. [PG 18/02/2013]
 
Auguste Figon (1829-1899) was a French photographer who worked in several different places in Norway, including Bergen, Tromsø, Hammerfest and Fredrikstad: http://www.nb.no/pm/fotograf.php?fotograf_id=644 (accessed 18 February 2013). [PG 18/02/2013]
 
LL/113117