18th Jun, 2013 10:00

Fine Art

 
Lot 654
 

† Robley (Horatio Gordon) Moko; or Maori Tattooing, 4to, gilt cloth, illus., half title, half tone frontispiece and 180 illustrations from drawings and photographs by the Author, signed on half-title page ''Katherine S. Morant, 1898'', Chapman & Hall, 1896. See illustration NB Major Gen. Horatio Gordon Robley joined the 68th (Durham) Light Infantry in 1858. In 1863 his regiment left Burma to join Gen. Cameron's forces at Tauranga, New Zealand in the attack on Gate Pa. He remained for nineteen months during which he observed and sketched Maori life, resulting in two books of which this volume is the more significant. His lifelong interest in the practice of tattooing and ethnography paralleled his activities as a collector. Notably, his collection included a unique assemblage of thirty-five Mokomokai dried tattooed human heads.

Sold for £700


 

Auction: Fine Art, 18th Jun, 2013

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