PUBLICATION RECEIVED.
We hivo received fiom tlio Gordon and Gotoh Propriotaiy a copy of tits beautiful booklet "Maori Studios." Nothing so ftno in the way of Maori portraiture as these " carboncttc " photographs ha 3 been attempted beforo in a collcetiW) form. There aro 12 photographs in all, and thuyy represent tho Maori woman of the past and of tho present, from comoly maidenhood to withered old age/ arrayed for conquest with mat and huia festhers, and at her workaday task of doming ths flax fibre. The pioturos are large, remarkable for exoe-Honco Of finish,' artistic PMC, and background, and onhanoedi by tho complete hatmony between the docpcsr tones of tlio carbon platen and the rich brown>of tho mounts. Tlieea Maori studies offer a mo9t charming opportunity o! introducing our native compatriots to the outer 'world..
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13998, 3 September 1907, Page 7
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