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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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Cataloguing data

Object type
positives (photographs)
Dimensions
Height: 27,2 cm
Width: 20,6 cm
Height: 31,2 cm
Width: 29,5 cm
Material/Technique
mounted on cardboard
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VIII E 709

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1875
    where
    Brazil
    Rio de Janeiro
    who
    Marc Ferrez (1843 - 1923) - Photographers
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Ethnology

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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