Lot 33: PAUL-EMILE MIOT

Femme de la tribu des Mics-macs, 1859
albumen print
credited, captioned and dated 'Femme de la tribu des Mics-macs (Amérique du Nord) Photographiée à Terre-Neuve, en 1859, par M r Miot, lieutenant de vaisseau' in ink, dated again in later hand in pencil on mount
5 3/4 x 4 3/8in. (14.5 x 11cm.)

The photograph offered in this lot, as well as another print from the same negative in the Musée l'homme, Paris are respectively captioned "Woman of the Micmac tribe photographed in Newfoundland" and "Woman of the Micmac tribe. Newfoundland", however a third print in the National Archives of Canada, Ottawa is described, "Mi'kmaq (Micmac) woman on board the French naval vessel Sésostris, at the recoaling station, Sydney area, Nova Scotia". It is probable that this portrait was taken while Miot was posted at the Newfoundland naval station in Cape Breton rather than while he was physically in Newfoundland.

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