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"Indian portrait"

Caption in Kümin, Beatrice. 2007. expedition Brazil. From the research drawing to ethnographic photography. Bern: Benteli, p. 41, fig. 16): "Even the most romanticised Indian portraits by Marc Ferrez, Brazil's most important pioneering photographer, sold well. They fitted in perfectly with the image that Brazil wanted to project. Marc Ferrez photograph, c. 1870, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum" Caption Freitas 2001 (see lit., referring to the illustration on the left): "Indumentária indígena dos caciques Apiacá / Apparel worn by th Apiacá Indian Chiefs, Marc Ferrez Rio de Janeiro? Coleção D. Thereza Christina Maria Biblioteca Nacional, Rio de Janeiro Brasil"

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Object type
positives (photographs)
Dimensions
Bildformat (Foto): 27,2 x 20,6 cm
Kartonformat (Foto): 31,2 x 29,5 cm
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VIII E 709

Provenance and sources

when
1875
where
Brazil [Land]
Rio de Janeiro [Stadt]
who
Marc Ferrez (1843 - 1923) - Photographers

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