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Portrait of a girl

Portrait of a girl

Photograph depicts a young girl with a crown of flowers in her hair. The photograph was taken on Rapa Nui (Easter Island).

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Fonds consists of five glass plate negatives taken in the early 1930s by James B. W. Cater when he worked for a farming company on Rapa Nui (Easter Island), a Chilean island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle.

Glass plate negatives feature: a young girl posed in front of a moai, the monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people; a portrait of a young girl; group portraits taken outdoors.

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Group portrait in front of a pole

Group portrait in front of a pole

Photograph depicts a group of people in front of a pole with a structure visible in the background. The photograph was taken on Rapa Nui (Easter Islands). The photograph is slightly overexposed.

Girl with group of moai

Girl with group of moai

Photograph depicts a group of moai monolithic sculptures carved by the Rapa Nui people on Rapa Nui (Easter Island). A young girl is visible standing on one of the moai.