SAMOA - THOMAS ANDREW 1855-1939 - CHARLES KERRY 1857-1928 - Lot 75

SAMOA - THOMAS ANDREW 1855-1939 - CHARLES KERRY 1857-1928 Samoan women playing cards, preparing Kava, three young girls making Ava (ceremonial drink), ca.1880-1918. Photographs. 6 albumin prints, 2 mounted on cardboard, 2 captioned in English in the negative, 1 with "Kerry & Co" dry stamp on the image, 1 by Thomas Andrew signed with the monogram in the negative. Images: 9.4 x 13.7 cm to 15.2 x 19.8 cm; mounts: 14.3 x 19.3 cm and 16.4 x 20.7 cm Bibliography: Alan Beukers "Exotic Postcards. The Lure of Distant Lands", Ed. Thames & Hudson, London, 2007, p.77. Prints of these images are held in the collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library at the National Library of New Zealand and the Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand (O.041900). Bibliography: Bartlett Tripp, "My trip to Samoa", Torch Press, USA, 1911.