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- Title
Who was Jutta Merensky? In search of a German photographer of the Pacific.
- Authors
Thomas, Nicholas
- Abstract
Outlined with this report is what is known regarding a significant donation of photographs received by the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA), Cambridge, in 2010. The photographer was Jutta Merensky, later Jutta Gethen (1911–96). Information available at present indicates that she visited the Pacific twice or more, probably in 1961 and over 1968–69. Several hundred transparencies and prints now cared for in Cambridge feature landscapes, ceremonies, people and daily activities in Aotearoa New Zealand, Samoa, French Polynesia and elsewhere and notably include a sequence of tatau (tattooing) photographs from Samoa.
- Subjects
SAMOA; FRENCH Polynesia; PHOTOGRAPHY archives; PHOTOGRAPHERS; ETHNOARCHAEOLOGY; ARCHAEOLOGICAL museums &; collections; PHOTOGRAPHS; TATTOOING; ACTIVITIES of daily living; BODY piercing
- Publication
Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies, 2024, Vol 12, Issue 1, p73
- ISSN
2050-4039
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1386/nzps_00184_7