Native Feast, circa 1882

cabinet photograph

PHOTOGRAPHS
Hoare, C.B.; Gordon-Cumming, C.F.
Société, Îles de la, Tahiti; Société, Îles de la, Tahiti, Papeete
circa 1882
paper
overall: 4-1/4 x 6-1/2 in.

Cabinet photograph, albumen print of watercolor on white card; Native Feast, circa 1882 (see Manuscript Coll. 311); collected by Captain Richard C. Mears (1829-1899) during his travels as a shipmaster to the South Pacific; original image was most likely a watercolor painting by C. Gordon Cumming (nee Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming, travel writer and painter during the mid to late 1800s) depicting a scene of a native Tahitian feast; handwritten on back "Native Feast/ District [illegible]/ Tahiti/ Breadfruit tree in the/ Right hand corner."; printed on back "C.B. HOARE,/ Photographer,/ PAPEETE,/ TAHITI."

2005.34.50