Unidentified photographer
1860s-1874 (ca)
Studio portrait of a Saami man, sitting, wearing a distinctive hat.
Carte de visite
Pitt Rivers MuseumJoan Evans - Donated August 1941, 1941.8.36
Research Notes
This carte de visite has been identified as a photograph issued by Braekstad & Co., taken from the printed information on the reverse. It should be noted that Braekstad was a seller of paper goods in Trondheim and the issuer (seller) of this carte de visite, not the photography studio per se. [PG 18/02/2013]
This photograph (though not this particular print) was one of those copied and reproduced in Carl Dammann's Anthropologisch-Ethnologisches Album (1873-4), in the section on 'Europa: Finnen und Lappen (Russland)'. It was also reproduced subsequently in C. and F. W. Dammann's smaller, English-language Ethnological Photographic Gallery of the Various Races of Men (1875), in the section on 'Slavonians, Finns'. [Philip Grover 09/07/2013]
Related image - 1998.479.42 [PG 09/07/2013]
LL/113106
