Maj. Gen. Horatio Gordon Robley & Maori heads
Originally uploaded by pantufla.
Major General Horatio Gordon Robley’s ethnographic book Maori Tattooing has been the standard reference on Moko, or the Maori art of face and body tattooing, ever since it was published in 1896. Dover recently reprinted it. The above photograph of Major General Robley with his collection of tattooed Maoria heads comes from Medicine Man,a gorgeous book about Henry Wellcome’s museum of curios.
from the Athanasius Kircher Society's website
ROBLEY, Major-General Horatio Gordon
(1840–1930).
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