Opening: $150 Hammer Price: $150 SOLD Skylight Gallery 40 December 2015

CDV-format albumen print of two New Caledonia warriors, by Photographie Hagen, Noume, Nouvelle-Caledonie circa 1880. The warriors in this image are shown wearing the large and bizarre jock-strap-like coverings adopted by natives of New Caledonia as well as Papau New Guinea.   ( Inventory# ie97a )

This image was found with others sharing the same subjects and backdrop and bearing the imprint for "Photographie Hagen / Noumea, Nouvelle-Caledonie."

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