Unidentified photographer
1870s (ca)
Portrait of two Saami women, standing, wearing distinctive hats (ládjogahpir).
Carte de visite
Pitt Rivers MuseumJoan Evans - Donated August 1941, 1941.8.41
Publications history
Research publication - This carte de visite has been published in Elizabeth Edwards, 'Evolving Images: Photography, Race and Popular Darwinism', in Diana Donald and Jane Munro (eds.), Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts (Cambridge and New Haven, 2009), p.170, figure 176.13: 'Braekstad & Col. (Trondheim, Norway), Saami women, ca. 1870s. They are posed in quasi-anthropological style to show full face and profile. Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. (C.112)'; also listed on p.324 of the 'Checklist of Exhibits' as catalogue number 112. [PG 24/01/2013]
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 not, however, reproduced subsequently in C. and F. W. Dammann's smaller, English-language Ethnological Photographic Gallery of the Various Races of Men (1875). [Philip Grover 09/07/2013]
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