Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
Archey collection of ethnographic negatives.
Primary Maker
Date
1920s-1960s
Physical Description
Related Object Notes
Archey negatives C60899-C60909; B10392-B10383; C29637-C29724
Whaowhia; Maori art and Its Artists, by Gilbert Archey. Auckland, Collins, 1977 GN672.6. A7 ARC
Media/Materials
Technique
Subject Category
Public Access Text
Negatives identified, sorted and listed by Malcolm Ross who compiled an Archey Photograph Inventory (The draft of the Inventory is located in Pictorial Office -typed version missing). Pictorial copy of Whaowhia has been annotated to corrolate negative numbers with object images. The inventory lists negatives according to Archey's arrangement
Subject Notes
Sir Gilbert Archey, 1890-1974, was a man of many parts: teacher, soldier, museum curator and director, biologist, authority on Maori and Plynrsian art, author of many books and articles.
Appointed curator(later Director
Copyright
All rights reserved
Last Update
11 May 2023
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