Hand-colored panoramic photograph
10 in x 35 in in original custom frame / 25.4 x 88.9 cm
Provenance: David Simmons, Auckland, NZ
This hand-colored panoramic photograph by R.P. Moore shows Māori poi dancers at Rotorua in 1901. Rotorua was an important center for Māori cultural presentation, tourism, and photographic documentation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The long horizontal format allows the figures, architecture, and landscape to be read together as a broad cultural scene.
The image is presented in its original custom frame, with a title plaque identifying the subject as “Poi Dancers (Canoe Poi) Rotorua N.Z.” Hand-coloring adds atmosphere to the photograph while preserving the documentary structure of Moore’s panoramic composition. As a period New Zealand image, it fits within Māori photography, Pacific visual culture, and early tourism-era documentation.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
Hand-colored panoramic photograph
10 in x 35 in in original custom frame / 25.4 x 88.9 cm
Provenance: David Simmons, Auckland, NZ
This hand-colored panoramic photograph by R.P. Moore shows Māori poi dancers at Rotorua in 1901. Rotorua was an important center for Māori cultural presentation, tourism, and photographic documentation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The long horizontal format allows the figures, architecture, and landscape to be read together as a broad cultural scene.
The image is presented in its original custom frame, with a title plaque identifying the subject as “Poi Dancers (Canoe Poi) Rotorua N.Z.” Hand-coloring adds atmosphere to the photograph while preserving the documentary structure of Moore’s panoramic composition. As a period New Zealand image, it fits within Māori photography, Pacific visual culture, and early tourism-era documentation.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
